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Westview Cubing Favorites 2025

San Diego, California · 1 June 2025 · 10 events · 111 competitors · 88 personal bests

Matty Hiroto Inaba won four of the ten events (3×3, 4×4, 5×5) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Dominic Shoji by 0.11 seconds. 111 competitors produced 88 personal bests, 41 of which still stand today, and 14 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Henry Frankie took a 2×2 single of 16.33 down to 6.42, 61 percent better in one day.

Four wins

Matty Hiroto Inaba — 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, 3×3 one-handed

0.11s

closest final — 2×2, Dominic Shoji over Angel Muñoz

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Matty Hiroto Inaba	4.54	5.02
2×2	Dominic Shoji	1.62	2.37
4×4	Matty Hiroto Inaba	20.32	24.48
5×5	Matty Hiroto Inaba	41.43	44.37
3×3 one-handed	Matty Hiroto Inaba	9.30	11.06
Clock	Yunhao Lou (娄云皓)	3.43	3.74
Megaminx	Michael Muething	34.15	37.27
Pyraminx	Owen Yepeng Sun (孙叶芃)	1.75	2.23
Skewb	Dean Jacob Adamo Susskind	1.87	2.29
Square-1	Michael Young	9.34	10.80

The PB harvest

88 set · 41 still standing

Mulun Yin (阴目仑) — 4×4 single 22.67: into the top 0.28% of the event's history.
Zhai Phifer — Pyraminx single 2.37: into the top 1.9% of the event's history.
Nicholas Dorcas — Pyraminx single 3.62: into the top 6.0% of the event's history.
Tanner Magill — Pyraminx single 3.98: into the top 7.5% of the event's history.
Nathaniel Dorcas — Clock single 7.09: into the top 11.3% of the event's history.
Trey Vu — 3×3 one-handed single 17.35: into the top 13.5% of the event's history.
Minjae Sakong — 3×3 single 12.88: into the top 17.0% of the event's history.
Rayyan Hussain — 3×3 single 13.24: into the top 18.3% of the event's history.

First-timers

14 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 28,483 people who made their debut in 2025. 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

111 competitors · 387 results · 10 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. Matty Hiroto Inaba won it with a 5.02 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

111 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.