Cubing East Auckland Newcomer Open 2026

Date: Apr 18 - 19, 2026
City: Auckland, New Zealand
Venue: Macleans College
Address: 2 Macleans Road, Eastern Beach, Auckland 2012
Details: Barbara Kendall Gymnasium
Contact: Organization team
Organizer: Richard Yiheng Tao
WCA Delegates: Caleb Hall, Cheng-Ru Yang, David Lim, Nick Ng, and Richard Yiheng Tao

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Information

Cubing East Auckland Newcomer Open 2026 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition.

This competition is specifically designed to provide the best possible experience for new competitiors, featuring generous cutoffs and progression.

For this competition, registration will be FREE for all first-time competitors. If this is your first competition, simply register here, but do not complete payment. The organisation team will then manually approve your free registration.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 147

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Richard Yiheng Tao won with an average of 6.14 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Alexander Vujcich finished second (6.72) and Lachlan Gibson finished third (7.85).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Richard Yiheng Tao	5.03	6.14	New Zealand	5.03	6.49	6.73	5.20	7.27
2	Alexander Vujcich	4.76	6.72	New Zealand	6.89	6.70	6.70	6.75	4.76
3	Lachlan Gibson	6.64	7.85	New Zealand	6.64	7.32	9.75	8.19	8.03

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Yuki Gao	0.88	1.17	China	0.90	1.53	3.39	1.08	0.88
2	Alexander Vujcich	1.01	1.44	New Zealand	1.01	2.30	1.90	1.33	1.09
3	Carol Chai	1.48	1.75	New Zealand	1.99	1.58	1.67	3.39	1.48

4x4x4 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Alexander Vujcich	19.32	23.35	New Zealand	23.16	23.35	19.32	28.41	23.55
2	Richard Yiheng Tao	26.15	28.06	New Zealand	28.52	29.41	27.14	26.15	28.51
3	Lachlan Gibson	27.22	28.86	New Zealand	28.95	28.46	30.00	29.18	27.22

5x5x5 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Alexander Vujcich	39.76	45.40	New Zealand	39.76	51.50	45.59	48.05	42.56
2	Richard Yiheng Tao	48.34	49.91	New Zealand	50.38	50.11	48.34	51.21	49.24
3	Brandon Harris	48.80	58.61	New Zealand	53.81	1:10.55	1:02.97	59.05	48.80

6x6x6 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Richard Yiheng Tao	1:38.86	1:42.99	New Zealand	1:46.67	1:43.43	1:38.86
2	Kalvin Lum	1:48.40	1:53.21	New Zealand	1:55.00	1:48.40	1:56.24
3	Brandon Harris	1:46.55	1:56.62	New Zealand	1:46.55	2:05.24	1:58.08

7x7x7 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Richard Yiheng Tao	2:16.32	2:22.56	New Zealand	2:30.90	2:16.32	2:20.47
2	Brandon Harris	2:57.30	3:03.81	New Zealand	3:07.98	3:06.16	2:57.30
3	Kalvin Lum	2:51.52	3:10.15	New Zealand	3:23.46	2:51.52	3:15.47

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Jesse Brooke	9.95	11.24	New Zealand	11.73	11.67	10.32	15.49	9.95
2	Richard Yiheng Tao	10.91	11.46	New Zealand	12.96	10.91	11.03	12.17	11.17
3	Lachlan Gibson	9.38	12.33	New Zealand	9.38	11.89	13.37	11.74	13.92

Clock

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Lachlan Gibson	2.08	2.98	New Zealand	DNF	2.08	3.69	2.84	2.40
2	Brandon Harris	2.69	3.34	New Zealand	3.00	4.76	4.21	2.69	2.82
3	Elvis Chung	2.97	3.70	New Zealand	3.02	3.43	4.64	2.97	DNF

Megaminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Alexander Vujcich	24.95	27.23	New Zealand	25.91	28.03	24.95	27.76	29.27
2	Brandon Harris	33.00	33.75	New Zealand	33.61	35.36	33.00	33.80	33.84
3	Richard Yiheng Tao	36.10	44.26	New Zealand	36.10	47.13	46.66	43.44	42.67

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Ashley Foster	1.89	2.91	New Zealand	2.71	1.89	3.73	3.77	2.29
2	Carol Chai	2.11	3.02	New Zealand	2.58	2.11	2.93	6.07	3.54
3	Benjamin Gardner	1.57	3.42	New Zealand	3.05	1.57	3.98	3.31	3.89

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Lachlan Gibson	3.13	4.02	New Zealand	8.38	3.13	5.48	3.30	3.28
2	Carol Chai	2.78	4.65	New Zealand	5.46	4.32	4.17	8.64	2.78
3	Richard Yiheng Tao	5.00	5.18	New Zealand	5.00	5.45	5.04	5.56	5.05