Competitions · Belgium

Zonhoven Open 2018

Zonhoven · 28 April 2018 · 6 events · 82 competitors · 88 personal bests

Mika Smulders won the 3×3 with a 8.62 and the closest final was the 3×3 one-handed, won by Olivier Vos by 0.22 seconds. 82 competitors produced 88 personal bests, 35 of which still stand today, and 20 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Greg Leonard took a 3×3 one-handed single of 1:18.64 down to 37.68, 52 percent better in one day.

events decided

0.22s

closest final — 3×3 one-handed, Olivier Vos over Jonathan Mauroy

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Mika Smulders	7.55	8.62
4×4	Quinten Andelhofs	30.91	32.58
3×3 blindfolded	Jan Bentlage	58.42	1:25.18
3×3 one-handed	Olivier Vos	13.96	17.43
Pyraminx	Robin Verstraten	2.84	3.39
Skewb	Mattheo de Wit	2.65	4.08

The PB harvest

88 set · 35 still standing

Patryk Pałka — Pyraminx single 3.56: into the top 5.7% of the event's history.
Stev Fivez — 3×3 single 10.51: into the top 9.0% of the event's history.
Naïm Chaara — 3×3 single 10.97: into the top 10.4% of the event's history.
Naïm Chaara — Skewb single 4.01: into the top 11.0% of the event's history.
Geert Bicler — 4×4 single 41.77: into the top 14.2% of the event's history.
Quentin Raemdonck — Pyraminx single 5.20: into the top 14.4% of the event's history.
Tobi Vuerstaek — Pyraminx single 5.77: into the top 18.3% of the event's history.
Quinten Truyens — 3×3 single 13.52: into the top 19.3% of the event's history.

First-timers

20 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

82 competitors · 387 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. Mika Smulders won it with a 8.62 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

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

solve 1

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solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

82 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.