Bold Solvin' Bloemfontein 2025

Date: Jul 12, 2025
City: Bloemfontein, South Africa
Venue: Pavilion Hall
Address: Showgrounds, Curie Avenue, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Details: Event hall
Contact: Organization team
Organizer: Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim
WCA Delegate: Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim

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Information

CubingZA is excited to announce Bold Solvin' Bloemfontein 2025! 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.

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. If you need a puzzle before the competition, check out https://cubestuff.co.za/ to order your puzzles before the comp!

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Events
Main event
Competitors: 28

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There is a competitor limit of 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is R200 (South African Rand).
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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.
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REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

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Spectators

Competitors are welcome to bring up to two (2) spectators with them for free. If you would like to bring more than that, please contact the Organizers.

Volunteering

Please note that all competitors are required to assist with volunteering during the competition - either in the role of "runner", "judge" or "scrambler". These roles will be explained as part of the "New Competitor Tutorial", but you can take a look at this video.

Prizes

Our sponsors, Cubestuff and CubingZA are offering cash prizes to the podium finishers in each event. There are also prizes for the Best Female cuber and the Best Newcomer(first-time competitors)!

Highlights

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Ruben Smith won with an average of 11.11 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Markus Visagie finished second (11.24) and Heinrich de Lange finished third (11.77).

African records: Estian Blignaut‎ Skewb 1.57 (single).

Cameron Lochrie Mcleod - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	19	30.13		36.75		South Africa	30.13	44.75	34.96	36.84	38.45

Clea Watson - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	22	55.80		1:03.47		South Africa	55.80	1:03.43	1:08.59	58.40	1:11.80

Daniel David Mizen - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	9	12.43	15.59	South Africa	15.19	12.43	15.35	16.72	16.23
	First round	8	13.75	15.40	South Africa	15.58	14.75	17.83	15.88	13.75
2x2x2 Cube	Final	5	3.40	4.90	South Africa	7.60	4.71	3.40	5.34	4.65
	First round	4	3.05	4.77	South Africa	6.49	4.31	4.26	5.75	3.05
Megaminx	Final	9	1:34.81	DNF	South Africa	2:14.70	1:34.81	2:03.78	DNS	DNS
Pyraminx	Final	8	10.87	11.70	South Africa	12.84	10.88	10.87	13.84	11.37
Skewb	Final	2	1.63	3.98	South Africa	3.84	3.88	1.63	8.42	4.22
	First round	2	4.34	5.60	South Africa	4.34	5.72	5.06	6.03	DNF

Eli John Mcleod - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
Pyraminx	Final	15	21.38		24.32		South Africa	22.59	52.18	21.38	24.87	25.51

Estian Blignaut - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	8	12.04		15.31	South Africa	16.39	15.01	14.95	12.04	15.98
	First round	9	14.25		16.63	South Africa	14.25	15.24	19.19	15.46	23.23
2x2x2 Cube	Final	9	3.02		5.41	South Africa	7.79	5.94	3.02	4.55	5.73
	First round	6	4.42		5.41	South Africa	4.70	4.42	6.83	4.71	7.55
Megaminx	Final	6	1:57.97		2:13.04	South Africa	2:17.48	1:57.97	2:15.99	2:24.40	2:05.64
Pyraminx	Final	9	9.47		12.56	South Africa	12.17	13.29	12.21	9.47	19.55
Skewb	Final	1	1.57	AfR	3.02	South Africa	2.71	3.75	1.57	2.61	3.76
	First round	1	2.92		3.30	South Africa	3.20	2.92	6.19	3.52	3.19

Heinrich de Lange - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	3	10.80	11.77	South Africa	10.80	12.09	11.23	12.00	13.27
	First round	5	10.64	14.13	South Africa	10.64	13.19	12.80	16.39	18.81
2x2x2 Cube	Final	1	2.83	3.68	South Africa	2.83	4.77	4.16	3.17	3.70
	First round	1	3.15	3.42	South Africa	3.46	3.21	3.15	4.23	3.58
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	2	DNF	DNF	South Africa	DNF	DNF	DNF
Megaminx	Final	1	40.32	45.26	South Africa	49.75	43.06	40.32	48.97	43.76
Pyraminx	Final	1	5.22	6.32	South Africa	5.22	6.52	10.05	7.16	5.29
Skewb	Final	4	5.15	5.84	South Africa	5.60	6.05	5.87	6.99	5.15
	First round	3	5.06	6.13	South Africa	9.63	6.95	5.79	5.65	5.06

Ian James Mcleod - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	17	19.46	29.56	South Africa	20.77	DNF	22.87	45.05	19.46
	First round	12	18.97	20.85	South Africa	20.35	21.49	21.43	20.78	18.97
2x2x2 Cube	First round	17	7.21	12.60	South Africa	14.76	11.29	20.02	11.75	7.21
Pyraminx	Final	13	11.74	17.53	South Africa	22.62	17.70	19.05	15.84	11.74
Skewb	First round	16	16.47	21.67	South Africa	21.77	20.90	22.34	16.47	23.76

Jean Watson - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	11	16.72	17.73	South Africa	17.72	19.60	17.57	16.72	17.91
	First round	11	17.02	19.46	South Africa	18.72	21.75	17.02	17.92	22.05
2x2x2 Cube	Final	8	5.03	5.40	South Africa	5.03	5.53	5.73	5.34	5.34
	First round	10	5.45	6.25	South Africa	5.92	5.61	5.45	7.69	7.21

Johan Botha - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	14	21.49	26.13	South Africa	24.54	24.55	41.40	29.31	21.49
	First round	14	18.80	23.77	South Africa	22.16	26.60	29.38	18.80	22.55
2x2x2 Cube	Final	14	8.94	9.71	South Africa	8.94	10.23	9.60	14.83	9.30
	First round	16	10.29	12.49	South Africa	18.06	11.54	13.28	10.29	12.65
Skewb	Final	14	12.12	19.16	South Africa	27.30	13.45	16.74	12.12	28.27
	First round	15	15.54	19.58	South Africa	16.42	15.54	20.34	25.45	21.97

Johann Bornman - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	25	1:23.85		4:19.16		South Africa	1:23.85	1:56.07	6:15.11	7:34.46	4:46.30
2x2x2 Cube	First round	18	12.45		17.16		South Africa	22.66	15.02	12.45	13.79	22.86

Johnathan Ellis - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	15	24.27	26.49	South Africa	24.27	27.89	26.31	25.27	29.08
	First round	17	23.24	31.69	South Africa	28.44	37.49	33.44	33.19	23.24
2x2x2 Cube	Final	13	4.49	8.42	South Africa	9.73	13.20	4.49	7.45	8.07
	First round	12	7.46	9.04	South Africa	7.46	DNF	8.56	9.18	9.37
Megaminx	Final	7	3:27.22	3:57.94	South Africa	4:13.48	4:12.67	3:27.22	4:02.71	3:38.44
Pyraminx	Final	10	12.41	14.42	South Africa	16.48	13.55	13.88	12.41	15.82
Skewb	Final	12	11.61	15.52	South Africa	15.40	11.61	16.25	16.94	14.91
	First round	14	6.45	18.03	South Africa	24.51	18.62	19.55	15.91	6.45

Jonaldro du Toit - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	6	11.99	13.56	South Africa	12.77	13.66	14.26	11.99	DNF
	First round	6	12.41	14.77	South Africa	13.92	DNF	12.41	13.88	16.50
2x2x2 Cube	First round	22	4.56	DNF	South Africa	4.56	5.57	DNF	8.74	DNF
Skewb	First round	20	12.58	DNF	South Africa	12.58	DNF	DNF	14.99	14.08

Justin Lessing - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	16	23.45	29.48	South Africa	27.14	25.73	23.45	41.12	35.57
	First round	15	25.23	29.23	South Africa	31.18	35.01	25.23	27.43	29.08
2x2x2 Cube	Final	16	5.52	11.17	South Africa	17.40	10.24	8.90	14.37	5.52
	First round	15	8.73	11.83	South Africa	14.70	11.28	8.73	15.33	9.50

Kagoentle Mokhabela - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	7	12.92	14.95	South Africa	12.92	16.97	24.90	12.93	14.96
	First round	3	10.58	13.41	South Africa	10.58	13.86	16.93	13.08	13.28
2x2x2 Cube	Final	3	3.93	4.66	South Africa	3.93	4.85	4.18	4.95	7.31
	First round	7	4.92	5.92	South Africa	6.92	4.96	5.88	4.92	7.59
Pyraminx	Final	6	8.32	9.50	South Africa	8.32	9.58	8.99	11.00	9.93
Skewb	Final	3	5.06	5.64	South Africa	6.25	5.55	DNF	5.06	5.11
	First round	7	5.62	9.53	South Africa	6.46	12.50	DNF	5.62	9.63

Kaylie Pretorius - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	5	11.07	13.18	South Africa	11.92	14.05	13.75	11.07	13.87
	First round	7	12.93	15.02	South Africa	14.42	15.40	12.93	17.87	15.23
2x2x2 Cube	Final	4	4.23	4.82	South Africa	6.01	4.23	4.24	4.23	6.00
	First round	5	4.32	4.95	South Africa	5.65	5.03	5.20	4.32	4.63
Megaminx	Final	4	1:41.41	1:48.42	South Africa	1:41.41	1:42.84	1:48.02	1:54.41	2:23.37
Pyraminx	Final	4	7.63	8.92	South Africa	8.69	8.74	11.54	7.63	9.34
Skewb	Final	7	6.03	9.38	South Africa	10.80	14.43	6.03	9.93	7.40
	First round	5	4.88	8.04	South Africa	13.91	8.38	8.31	7.42	4.88

Leane Pretorius - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
2x2x2 Cube	First round	20	17.47		21.12		South Africa	22.86	17.47	22.01	27.28	18.50

Markus Visagie - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	2	10.84	11.24	South Africa	12.45	10.84	11.21	11.19	11.31
	First round	2	11.13	11.64	South Africa	12.25	11.13	11.50	12.34	11.18
2x2x2 Cube	Final	2	3.32	4.51	South Africa	4.82	4.86	5.87	3.32	3.86
	First round	2	3.45	4.31	South Africa	4.28	3.45	3.96	5.37	4.70
Megaminx	Final	3	1:21.96	1:28.78	South Africa	1:32.51	1:21.96	1:29.56	1:31.91	1:24.86
Pyraminx	Final	2	6.34	7.88	South Africa	7.75	8.26	7.62	6.34	10.01
Skewb	Final	5	2.99	6.88	South Africa	9.01	7.20	2.99	7.08	6.37
	First round	4	4.39	7.15	South Africa	7.24	6.40	7.80	10.71	4.39

Matthew Strydom - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	24	1:54.13		2:56.84		South Africa	3:39.87	2:06.68	1:54.13	3:06.02	3:37.83

Neels Bornman - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	13	24.55	25.97	South Africa	26.50	24.55	25.23	28.74	26.17
	First round	16	25.30	29.76	South Africa	DNF	31.49	29.90	27.90	25.30
2x2x2 Cube	Final	10	3.01	5.61	South Africa	5.15	5.79	3.01	7.10	5.88
	First round	8	5.41	5.93	South Africa	6.50	10.37	5.52	5.76	5.41
Pyraminx	Final	11	9.17	14.83	South Africa	14.56	16.86	15.76	14.16	9.17
Skewb	Final	15	9.09	23.28	South Africa	27.65	9.09	42.00	18.38	23.81
	First round	13	12.23	16.77	South Africa	30.49	19.99	17.31	13.00	12.23

Rohan du Toit - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	23	51.68	1:12.18	South Africa	55.27	1:02.97	DNF	1:38.30	51.68
2x2x2 Cube	First round	19	11.15	18.76	South Africa	20.78	21.43	11.15	14.06	27.63
Pyraminx	Final	16	28.08	39.20	South Africa	DNF	57.52	31.61	28.47	28.08
Skewb	First round	17	23.55	28.36	South Africa	35.26	23.55	DNF	24.82	24.99

Ruben Smith - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	1	10.57	11.11	South Africa	11.26	12.37	10.93	10.57	11.15
	First round	1	9.97	11.39	South Africa	10.17	12.55	9.97	11.44	12.84
2x2x2 Cube	Final	6	4.52	4.90	South Africa	5.08	4.52	4.62	5.14	4.99
	First round	9	4.45	6.11	South Africa	4.45	6.80	7.04	6.12	5.40
Pyraminx	Final	14	10.04	18.11	South Africa	22.45	11.41	32.13	10.04	20.46
Skewb	Final	6	6.45	7.30	South Africa	6.99	6.45	7.09	10.33	7.81
	First round	9	5.95	11.18	South Africa	11.44	11.35	5.95	13.65	10.76

Tobias Lochner - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	18	31.46	34.11	South Africa	31.46	31.90	37.73	36.23	34.19
	First round	18	25.24	34.91	South Africa	38.51	36.49	30.13	25.24	38.10
2x2x2 Cube	Final	15	7.60	10.97	South Africa	11.02	12.40	9.50	DNF	7.60
	First round	13	7.46	9.58	South Africa	7.66	7.46	10.53	11.27	10.54
Megaminx	Final	8	3:49.52	4:22.40	South Africa	4:15.97	4:22.34	4:28.89	5:32.48	3:49.52
Pyraminx	Final	7	8.36	10.89	South Africa	11.72	13.73	9.75	11.19	8.36
Skewb	Final	9	4.39	11.24	South Africa	12.10	12.32	4.39	9.95	11.68
	First round	6	7.95	8.51	South Africa	13.68	8.13	8.57	8.84	7.95

Tobie Lochner - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
Skewb	First round	18	25.33		33.50		South Africa	33.09	30.86	36.56	47.34	25.33

Vincent Hazelton-Lagarrigue - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	4	11.26	12.17	South Africa	16.80	12.88	12.12	11.51	11.26
	First round	4	13.31	13.50	South Africa	17.14	13.51	13.40	13.58	13.31
2x2x2 Cube	First round	21	4.25	DNF	South Africa	DNF	4.87	DNF	4.25	6.16
Megaminx	Final	2	53.77	56.54	South Africa	1:01.61	54.03	58.81	53.77	56.79
Pyraminx	Final	12	13.93	16.27	South Africa	19.33	15.38	13.93	14.60	18.83
Skewb	Final	8	9.85	10.54	South Africa	DNF	11.05	10.47	10.10	9.85
	First round	8	5.62	11.09	South Africa	11.58	10.87	10.83	16.97	5.62

Werno Pretorius - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	21	45.26	1:01.37	South Africa	45.26	1:24.20	1:03.14	45.89	1:15.07
2x2x2 Cube	Final	12	6.60	8.30	South Africa	9.00	8.00	8.67	6.60	8.23
	First round	14	7.50	11.31	South Africa	19.19	15.54	7.50	8.27	10.13
Skewb	First round	19	29.49	39.51	South Africa	36.70	59.55	50.75	29.49	31.08

Wikus Schutte - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	12	17.94	21.46	South Africa	29.93	21.64	20.72	22.03	17.94
	First round	13	20.35	23.23	South Africa	24.81	22.23	22.65	20.35	27.39
2x2x2 Cube	Final	7	3.70	4.92	South Africa	4.64	6.45	5.16	4.95	3.70
	First round	3	3.81	4.62	South Africa	4.75	4.35	3.81	4.77	4.95
Pyraminx	Final	5	7.96	9.02	South Africa	10.64	8.24	10.22	7.96	8.59
Skewb	Final	10	6.93	11.82	South Africa	13.38	6.93	9.03	15.52	13.05
	First round	11	11.16	12.98	South Africa	14.90	12.81	11.23	19.88	11.16

Willem Francois Burger - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	20	46.43	51.26	South Africa	46.43	1:06.16	53.12	51.20	49.45
Skewb	Final	13	10.92	18.36	South Africa	18.92	10.92	DNF	19.76	16.41
	First round	10	6.14	12.48	South Africa	16.63	14.52	6.14	11.39	11.52

Yusuf Talha Sayed Karim - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	10	11.99	15.64	South Africa	16.30	14.50	16.12	11.99	17.39
	First round	10	13.92	18.24	South Africa	21.67	13.92	15.42	18.88	20.43
2x2x2 Cube	Final	11	5.03	5.83	South Africa	5.04	5.60	6.84	5.03	25.04
	First round	11	3.75	8.69	South Africa	26.30	4.04	3.75	5.86	16.18
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Final	1	50.67	DNF	South Africa	50.67	55.55	DNF
Megaminx	Final	5	1:46.28	2:04.43	South Africa	2:08.56	1:46.28	1:58.19	2:08.83	2:06.54
Pyraminx	Final	3	7.62	8.50	South Africa	DNF	8.50	8.59	8.41	7.62
Skewb	Final	11	10.79	12.89	South Africa	14.92	12.67	23.27	11.07	10.79
	First round	12	9.10	13.12	South Africa	20.57	13.66	11.34	14.37	9.10