Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2025
- Date
- Jan 18, 2025
- City
- Waterloo, Iowa, United States
- Venue
Waterloo Convention Center
- Address
- 200 West 4th St., Waterloo, IA 50701
- Details
2nd Floor follow the signs
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Carter Kucala, Christopher Turner, Josian Turner, and Midwest Cubing Association
- WCA Delegates
- Carter Kucala, Shain Papalotl Longbehn, and Simon Kellum
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.

- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 62
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.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 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
We encourage everyone to register for the events they want to compete in via your online registration, however you may add events to your registration up until the event has started.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $30 (United States Dollar).
Any spectator can attend for free.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Brian Johnson won with an average of 7.03 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kaius Young finished second (8.27) and Simon Kellum finished third (8.40).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Johnson | 5.66 | 7.03 | United States | 6.73 | 9.02 | 7.44 | 6.91 | 5.66 | |||
| 2 | Kaius Young | 7.21 | 8.27 | United States | 7.21 | 7.43 | 12.26 | 9.06 | 8.31 | |||
| 3 | Simon Kellum | 7.74 | 8.40 | United States | 7.92 | 7.74 | 8.92 | 8.37 | 9.74 | |||
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaius Young | 26.90 | 27.56 | United States | 26.90 | 28.55 | 32.30 | 27.22 | 26.90 | |||
| 2 | Nathan Phillips | 26.94 | 27.75 | United States | 26.94 | 27.20 | 27.08 | 28.97 | 29.41 | |||
| 3 | Brian Johnson | 26.04 | 29.11 | United States | 34.75 | 31.92 | 26.04 | 29.13 | 26.29 | |||
5x5x5 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Phillips | 46.49 | 49.37 | United States | 46.49 | 54.57 | 49.66 | 48.50 | 49.95 | |||
| 2 | Kaius Young | 46.29 | 52.22 | United States | 51.65 | 55.29 | 46.29 | 54.18 | 50.83 | |||
| 3 | Brian Johnson | 49.94 | 54.81 | United States | 1:00.73 | 55.08 | 49.94 | 53.63 | 55.71 | |||
6x6x6 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Phillips | 1:31.53 | 1:41.98 | United States | 1:53.39 | 1:31.53 | 1:41.03 | |||||
| 2 | Josh Crook | 1:39.59 | 1:48.32 | United States | 1:53.54 | 1:51.83 | 1:39.59 | |||||
| 3 | Kaius Young | 1:52.20 | 1:53.53 | United States | 1:53.49 | 1:54.90 | 1:52.20 | |||||
3x3x3 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carter Kucala | 20.28 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 20.28 | |||||
| 2 | Cale Schoon | 37.53 | DNF | United States | 46.29 | DNF | 37.53 | |||||
| 3 | Kaius Young | 57.86 | DNF | United States | DNF | 57.86 | DNF | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Johnson | 9.94 | 10.96 | United States | 10.83 | 11.42 | 11.16 | 10.90 | 9.94 | |||
| 2 | Carter Kucala | 8.70 | 11.75 | United States | 9.90 | 8.70 | 13.08 | 15.94 | 12.27 | |||
| 3 | Simon Kellum | 13.09 | 14.81 | United States | 13.90 | 16.12 | 15.19 | 15.33 | 13.09 | |||