Beginner & Blind Benoni 2026

Date: Mar 29, 2026
City: Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Venue: Actonville Primary School
Address: 1273 Karolia St, Actonville, Benoni, 1506
Details: In the school hall
Website: Beginner & Blind Benoni 2026 website
Contact: ykarim@worldcubeassociation.org
Organizer: Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim
WCA Delegates: Marike Faught and Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim

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Information

CubingZA is excited to announce Beginner & Blind Benoni 2026!! Don't forget that to participate you need to register for the competition in the "Register" tab, and pay for your ticket to confirm your entry. Please see Registration Requirements below for instructions and when registration opens.

We will be having the Beginner Events in the morning and Blindfolded Events in the afternoon. There will be a separate Awards' Ceremony after each one so if you can, feel free to stick around for both and witness Total Non-Stop Action...with your eyes open or closed!!

All New Competitors
If this is your first time competing, or the first time your child or ward is competing, please ensure to bring with ID (card, book, passport, birth certificate) so that we can verify that the name is spelled correctly, the Date of Birth is correct, and the Nationality is correct.
Please also ensure you have all the puzzles you need to compete - we do not supply puzzles for competitors. You are welcome to ask other competitors if you can borrow their puzzle for a certain event, but there is no guarantee.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 49

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
If this is not your first competition, associate your WCA ID to your WCA account here.
Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R150 (South African Rand).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.

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Please note that there are THREE steps you need to take to be entered into this competition:
1. First-timer competitors must create a WCA account if they do not already have one (or their parent/guardian must create one for them).
2. The competitor must register for the competition using their WCA account, specifying which events they want to participate in.
3. Credit and Debit Card payments for the competition entry fee of R150.00 can be made at the following link
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Amahle Nyembe won with an average of 8.28 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Juandré Jacobs finished second (8.58) and Vincent Hazelton-Lagarrigue finished third (10.11).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Amahle Nyembe	7.76	8.28	South Africa	8.35	8.19	8.31	7.76	12.47
2	Juandré Jacobs	5.78	8.58	South Africa	5.78	7.98	9.81	8.63	9.13
3	Vincent Hazelton-Lagarrigue	8.67	10.11	South Africa	12.55	9.78	9.85	10.70	8.67

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Juandré Jacobs	2.54	3.05	South Africa	2.55	2.54	3.38	3.23	4.01
2	Vincent Hazelton-Lagarrigue	3.05	3.94	South Africa	3.05	3.36	5.62	5.19	3.26
3	Amahle Nyembe	2.66	4.00	South Africa	3.35	3.85	4.81	2.66	5.16

3x3x3 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Marike Faught	39.10	DNF	South Africa	DNF	40.64	DNF	39.10	53.34
2	Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim	39.65	DNF	South Africa	47.33	DNF	DNF	42.20	39.65
3	Joshua Bennett	1:57.22	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	1:57.22	DNF	DNF

Pyraminx

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Joshua Bennett	5.49	6.46	South Africa	6.41	5.59	7.38	5.49	10.04
2	James Ford	4.87	6.63	South Africa	5.94	6.78	4.87	7.18	8.66
3	Christiaan Botha	6.36	7.77	South Africa	9.43	7.44	6.36	6.43	12.14

4x4x4 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
1	Marike Faught	4:38.47		DNF		South Africa	DNF	4:38.47	DNF
2	Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim	7:02.20		DNF		South Africa	DNF	7:02.20	DNF

5x5x5 Blindfolded

#	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
1	Marike Faught	13:16.00		DNF		South Africa	DNF	13:16.00	DNF

3x3x3 Multi-Blind

#	Name	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
1	Marike Faught	17/23 55:46				South Africa	17/23 55:46