Competitions · Chinese Taipei

Taiwan Championship 2023

New Taipei City · 8 December 2023 · 17 events · 242 competitors · 352 personal bests

Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁) won five of the 17 events (3×3, 5×5, 6×6) and the closest final was the Skewb, won by Kai-Lun Cheng (鄭凱倫) by 0.05 seconds. 242 competitors produced 352 personal bests, 104 of which still stand today, and 16 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

A continental record

Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁) set the 7×7 average continental record: 1:49.59.

Five wins

Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁) — 3×3, 5×5, 6×6, 7×7, 3×3 one-handed

0.05s

closest final — Skewb, Kai-Lun Cheng (鄭凱倫) over Cian-Jyun Yang (楊謙君)

352

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁)	4.97	6.19
2×2	Ao Nogami (野上碧)	1.43	1.83
4×4	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	20.00	22.77
5×5	Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁)	37.51	39.23
6×6	Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁)	1:15.19	1:17.91
7×7	Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁)	1:47.20	1:49.59
3×3 blindfolded	Jia-Hong Lu (陸嘉宏)	22.96	—
3×3 Fewest Moves	Ko Youngjin (고영진)	24 moves	—
3×3 one-handed	Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁)	8.91	11.28
Clock	Andy Mok Man Cheuk (莫文卓)	5.06	5.45
Megaminx	Yun-Rui Chiang (江昀叡)	31.26	33.76
Pyraminx	Hajime Miyazaki (宮崎朔)	2.05	3.02
Skewb	Kai-Lun Cheng (鄭凱倫)	1.95	3.52
Square-1	Yi-Ho Hsueh (薛以和)	6.37	7.69
4×4 blindfolded	Kai-Wen Wang (王楷文)	4:53.08	—
5×5 blindfolded	Jia-Hong Lu (陸嘉宏)	6:53.33	—
3×3 Multi-Blind	Wayne Pi	16 of 19 cubes · 1:00:00	—

The PB harvest

352 set · 104 still standing

Yi-Ho Hsueh (薛以和) — Square-1 single 4.44: into the top 0.091% of the event's history.
Tang-Kai Huang (黃堂愷) — Square-1 single 6.21: into the top 0.92% of the event's history.
Ruei-Jyun Chang (張睿鈞) — 3×3 single 8.52: into the top 3.8% of the event's history.
Chi-Chien Kao (高齊謙) — Pyraminx single 3.32: into the top 4.8% of the event's history.
Zih-Siang Huang (黃子翔) — Skewb single 2.99: into the top 4.9% of the event's history.
Po-Hao Huang (黃博晧) — 2×2 single 2.09: into the top 5.4% of the event's history.
Ruei-Jyun Chang (張睿鈞) — Square-1 single 9.63: into the top 5.5% of the event's history.
Ding-Hong Ke (柯定紘) — Skewb single 3.13: into the top 5.6% of the event's history.

First-timers

16 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 37,591 people who made their debut in 2023. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

15 regional records were set at this competition.

The field

242 competitors · 1961 results · 17 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. Seung Hyuk Nahm (남승혁) won it with a 6.19 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

242 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.