Competitions · India
Versatile Cube Open 2018
Mumbai, Maharashtra · 29 April 2018 · 6 events · 93 competitors · 67 personal bests
Alaik Bhatia won two of the six events (5×5, 3×3 blindfolded) and the closest final was the 3×3, won by Aamir Saifee by 0.52 seconds. 93 competitors produced 67 personal bests, 14 of which still stand today, and 31 people held a competitor card for the first time.
The moment
The day's biggest improvement
Nikhil Sah took a Pyraminx single of 53.74 down to 18.03, 66 percent better in one day.
Winners & podiums
| Event | Winner | Single | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | Aamir Saifee | 7.58 | 9.14 |
| 5×5 | Alaik Bhatia | 1:08.08 | 1:16.63 |
| 3×3 blindfolded | Alaik Bhatia | 55.16 | — |
| Clock | Kush Girap | 5.52 | 7.79 |
| Pyraminx | Aniket Das | 2.20 | 2.99 |
| 3×3 with feet | Mohammed Aiman Koli | 41.00 | 45.18 |
The PB harvest
67 set · 14 still standing- Ajaz Khan — Pyraminx single 3.85: into the top 6.9% of the event's history.
- Advait Pai — 3×3 single 10.08: into the top 7.7% of the event's history.
- Rahul Bhavnagarwalla — Pyraminx single 4.71: into the top 11.5% of the event's history.
- Ovaiz Shaikh — 3×3 single 14.67: into the top 23.3% of the event's history.
- Arnav Chandel — 3×3 single 14.73: into the top 23.5% of the event's history.
- Shreyas Metkar — 3×3 single 15.78: into the top 27.1% of the event's history.
- Ajani Ali Mahdi — Pyraminx single 7.21: into the top 29.6% of the event's history.
- Vihaan Purohit — 3×3 single 19.32: into the top 38.0% of the event's history.
First-timers
31 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
No national, continental or world records were set at this competition. That is true of most competitions.
The field
93 competitors · 277 results · 6 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. Aamir Saifee won it with a 9.14 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.
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R' F2 L' D2 L' D2 U2 L2 R' F U L D U B' F2 D F U' L - 2
L D' L2 B D R' B R' D2 B' D' F2 R2 L2 U2 L B2 L F2 - 3
F2 U2 R2 F' R2 D2 R2 F' R U R' D U2 L U L2 U2 B2 R2 - 4
F U2 R2 B R2 B D2 B L2 D' R' B' D' L B' R' D' F' U2 B2 - 5
B' R' L' U' R' U2 F U D2 R2 B U L2 U2 L2 U2 D' R2 B2 R2
solve 1
solve 2
solve 3
solve 4
solve 5
Race this final
Everyone who competed
93 competitors- Aamir Saifee
- Aarin Manik
- Aaryan V. Khatwani
- Aayush Mishra
- Abhishek A. Singal
- Aditya Vaswani
- Aditya Vijaya Darekar
- Advait Deepak Khatu
- Advait Pai
- Advait Parab
- Ajani Ali Mahdi
- Ajaz Khan
- Aksh Devlapalli
- Alaik Bhatia
- Aman Bhutani
- Aniket Das
- Arjun Doshi
- Arnav Chandel
- Asmi Sanket Kawatkar
- Atharva Sandeep Darandale
- Atharva Shrungare
- Ayush Jaiswar
- Bhaktij Patil
- Bhavya Goyal
- Dalvi Shamika Shailesh
- Dhairya Kotecha
- Dhanashree Kanade
- Dhruv Bhirangi
- Dhruv Srivastava
- Eeshan Zele
- Gunjan Deepak Matkar
- Harsh Maheshwari
- Ishaan Singh
- James Gonsalves
- Kinana Contractor
- Kirti Serla
- Krish Prasanna Tendolkar
- Krish Serla
- Kush Girap
- Mann Jadwani
- Mihir Archis Kamath
- Mohammed Aiman Koli
- Mohit Lulla
- Neha Poddar
- Nikhil Sah
- Nikhil Soares
- Nimaye Garodia
- Nishad Khade
- Omkar Chavan
- Omkar Kamble
- Ovaiz Shaikh
- Paarth Arora
- Pankaj More
- Parth Juwale
- Piyush Kothari
- Pranay Laxman Bhagvat
- Prathmesh Jumale
- Priyyansh Manish Parikh
- Rahul Bhavnagarwalla
- Rahul Kulkarni
- Rahul Vijay Pujare
- Rajveer Sahu
- Rehan Naik
- Rishabh Parmar
- Rishi Godre
- Ritesh Kankekar
- Sachin Bandelkar
- Sashank Sundarapu
- Shanaya Shanbhag
- Shantanu A. Wanivadekar
- Shashank Bala
- Sheldon Rego
- Shreyas Kawatkar
- Shreyas Metkar
- Shrijan Pal
- Siddhant Rajesh Tandel
- Siddhi Venkatesh
- Sneha Jogle
- Somya Srivastava
- Soorya Ganesh B. Pillai
- Soundhariya Hariharan
- Sumedh Rao
- Tarun Jagadish
- Tejas Kadwadkar
- Tvisha Deepak Matkar
- Vaibhav Devrukhar
- Vaishakh Kargudri
- Vaishnavi Inarkar
- Viddesh Shetye
- Vignesh Sakpal
- Vihaan Purohit
- Vijay Vasant Mandhare
- Vinit Nalhe
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.