Berkeley Spring 2026


Date
Apr 26, 2026
City
Berkeley, California, United States
Venue

Pauley Ballroom

Address
Martin Luther King Jr Student Union ASUC, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Details

3rd floor of the Martin Luther King Jr Student Union

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Anto Kam (甘浩東), Berkeley Cube Club, Nolan Yiu, Ryan H. Lee, and West Coast Cubing LLC Treasurer
WCA Delegates
Anto Kam (甘浩東), Chris Martin, Mitchell Lane, Nolan Yiu, Ryan H. Lee, and Will Callan
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition is organized in partnership with West Coast Cubing and Speedcubeshop.

All additional donations and remaining profits from this competition will go towards supporting West Coast Cubing and the Cal Cube Club.

Another competition to be held at UC Berkeley!

  • Registrants will be accepted in the order that they pay, not the order that they register. Please be patient with us as we manually accept all eligible competitors.
  • Competitors may bring a maximum of two guests.

Competition Day Timing
- The competition will begin at the scheduled start time.
- Lunch will end at the scheduled time.
- Events will begin as soon as the previous event is wrapping up. Exception: All First Round events will not start more than 20 minutes early.
- Competitors may not compete in an event if they miss last call for that event. In general, last call is a few minutes after the last group is called.

  • Competitors and spectators under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
  • Berkeley Cube Club and West Coast Cubing do not provide supervision and cannot assume responsibility for personal safety or belongings.
Events
Main event
Competitors
167
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 215 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 100% 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.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 2 guests.

Participants and Spectators under 18

  • Competitors and spectators under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
  • Berkeley Cube Club and West Coast Cubing do not provide supervision and cannot assume responsibility for personal safety or belongings.

FREE REGISTRATION FOR UC BERKELEY STUDENTS!

UC Berkeley students can register for free! If you're a UC Berkeley student, please mention this in your registration comments and email anto@berkeley.edu with proof (a photo of your UC Berkeley student ID), and we will approve your registration without payment.

Payment:

  • Upon registering, you will receive an email with the subject containing "Registration Pending". This does NOT mean that you are on the registration list. Competitors will not be approved until the payment has been made.
  • Please ensure you have paid the registration fees via Stripe on the "Register" page. Your registration is not complete and will not be processed until you have paid the registration fee. Contact the organizational team if you encounter an issue.

Waitlist:

  • Once the competitor limit has been reached, the waitlist will be opened.
  • You must pay the registration fee to be added to the waitlist.
  • New registrations will be added to a waitlist and sorted in the order of payment.
  • Waitlisted competitors will only be added to the competition if an existing competitor withdraws.

Deleting Registration/Refunds:

  • If you can no longer make the competition, you may request a full refund by emailing the organizational team!
  • Withdrawing enables us to maximize attendance and allows competitors on the waiting list to attend.

Changing events:

  • Competitors may add or remove events using the Register function on the website

Important Staff Information:

  • We will be offering full registration fee reimbursement for staff members!
  • You MUST fill out the staff interest form to be on staff. For more information, see the Staffing tab. Note that filling out this form does NOT guarantee a spot on staff.
Highlights
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Ethan Jan won with an average of 6.16 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Zerui Cheng finished second (6.97) and James Chea finished third (7.41).

3x3x3 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Ethan Jan 5.64 6.16 United States 6.936.085.646.146.26
2 Zerui Cheng 5.34 6.97 United States 7.007.346.585.348.26
3 James Chea 5.89 7.41 United States 7.615.897.117.508.55

2x2x2 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Benjamin Schaham 1.31 1.78 United States 1.591.314.091.911.85
2 Stanley Tran 1.47 1.91 United States 7.941.471.482.471.79
3 Zane Qureshi 1.42 2.14 United States 1.662.341.422.435.84

3x3x3 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Calix Tang 18.22 19.47 United States 20.84DNF18.3618.2219.21
2 Anto Kam (甘浩東) 18.48 DNF Hong Kong, China 21.6918.48DNFDNF28.89
3 Ethan Jan 24.21 45.57 United States 55.4634.3246.9324.21DNF

3x3x3 One-Handed

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Henry Helmuth 8.70 9.80 United States 9.3011.008.709.9310.17
2 Calix Tang 8.12 10.33 United States 13.238.129.4912.419.10
3 Anto Kam (甘浩東) 9.48 10.59 Hong Kong, China 10.439.489.8911.4513.96

Megaminx

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Nolan Yiu 33.95 36.62 United States 39.4635.2133.9542.3735.18
2 Jonathan Rutenberg 36.63 39.71 Israel 42.2639.6136.6337.2747.43
3 Matt Mao 44.64 45.84 China 47.2445.2144.6445.0647.49
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