Competitions · Chinese Taipei

Taiwan Championship 2018

New Taipei City · 15 December 2018 · 18 events · 134 competitors · 202 personal bests

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) won five of the 18 events (3×3, 4×4, 5×5) and the closest final was the Pyraminx, won by Andrew Huang by 0.19 seconds. 134 competitors produced 202 personal bests, 46 of which still stand today, and 18 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A national record

Hua-Ting Lee (李華庭) set the 3×3 with feet single national record: 39.34.

Five wins

Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) — 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, 7×7, 3×3 blindfolded

0.19s

closest final — Pyraminx, Andrew Huang over Chia-Liang Tai (戴嘉良)

202

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	6.87	7.62
2×2	Yan-Hung Lai (賴彥宏)	1.64	2.62
4×4	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	27.28	28.91
5×5	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	49.57	53.02
6×6	Kuo-Hau Wu (吳國豪)	1:50.53	1:52.28
7×7	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	2:23.60	2:41.27
3×3 blindfolded	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	26.25	—
3×3 Fewest Moves	Tomohiro Kobayashi (小林知広)	26 moves	31.33
3×3 one-handed	Arifumi Fushimi (伏見有史)	11.05	13.33
Clock	Shao-Heng Hung (洪紹恆)	6.12	6.36
Megaminx	Yun-Rui Chiang (江昀叡)	39.37	45.25
Pyraminx	Andrew Huang	2.20	3.36
Skewb	Yu-Fang Liu (劉語芳)	3.06	4.03
Square-1	Darren Siew Ee Yaang (蕭奕暘)	12.07	14.42
4×4 blindfolded	Jia-Hong Lu (陸嘉宏)	3:05.85	—
5×5 blindfolded	Jia-Hong Lu (陸嘉宏)	7:53.15	—
3×3 Multi-Blind	Chi-Lun Hung (洪啟倫)	15 of 18 cubes · 54:01	—
3×3 with feet	Antoine Cantin	32.08	39.64

The PB harvest

202 set · 46 still standing

Che-Ting Chu (朱哲廷) — 3×3 single 6.38: into the top 0.75% of the event's history.
Arifumi Fushimi (伏見有史) — 4×4 single 27.28: into the top 1.5% of the event's history.
Chia-Liang Tai (戴嘉良) — Skewb single 2.14: into the top 1.7% of the event's history.
Yan-Jou Lin (林彥州) — Skewb single 2.23: into the top 2.0% of the event's history.
Huang-Bang Fang (房黃邦) — 2×2 single 1.48: into the top 2.1% of the event's history.
Kui-En Chiu (邱奎恩) — Pyraminx single 2.63: into the top 2.5% of the event's history.
Yu-Chine Lin (林佑謙) — 2×2 single 1.60: into the top 2.6% of the event's history.
Jun-Hao Hu (胡峻豪) — 3×3 single 8.18: into the top 3.1% of the event's history.

First-timers

18 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 26,076 people who made their debut in 2018. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

6 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

134 competitors · 1177 results · 18 events.

Solve this final yourself

how this works →

The 3×3 final here ran on one scramble group, so these five sequences are exactly what the finalists faced. Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文) won it with a 7.62 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

1B2 D2 U2 L F2 L2 R2 U2 R2 F L R2 D2 U' F2 D L D' R' F
2L2 B2 R U D R F L2 F L F2 L2 D2 L2 B2 L2 F' R2 U2 F2
3U' R2 D2 B2 U F2 L2 B2 R2 U' R' F' L2 F2 D' L D' F' D F
4D2 L2 R2 D' F2 D U B2 U' L' F U2 R' D2 R' F D2 L D' L2
5R2 B2 D2 B' U2 R2 B2 L' B' D2 U' B R' B' U B2 U F'

solve 1

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solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

134 competitors

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a final is a competition's last round; its order decides the podium · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · every solve starts from a computer-generated scramble, the same for every competitor in a round.