Edinburgh Winter 2026
- Date
- Jan 24 - 25, 2026
- City
- Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Venue
Meadowbank Sports Centre
- Address
- London Road, Edinburgh, EH7 6AE
- Details
Hall 3, Second floor, follow the signs
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Adam Leyton and UK Cube Association
- WCA Delegates
- AJ Nicholls, Ada Cooke, Adam Leyton, Eleanor Sinnott, Ryan Eckersley, Scott Hunter, and Tyler Gatenby
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Please read all the information in the FAQ and the Important Information tabs before registering.
Spectators may attend for free. There is no need to book!
PLEASE NOTE: For this competition, there will be competitor limits for some events:
- 4x4 BLD/5x5 BLD: first 20 to register
Spaces are available on a first come first served basis. If you are amongst the first 20 to register for these events, you will get a space in them. If you are not within the first people registered, your registration for that event will be removed after the close of registration. However we will be keeping a waiting list for these specific events in the case of dropouts before registration closes. Please only consider registering for these events if you are certain you would like to compete in them.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 124
- 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 125 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is £30 (British Pound).
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 by contacting the organization team.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Any spectator can attend for free.
Make sure to register and pay for the competition to be accepted. We will not accept any registrations at the competition.
Once you have been accepted, you will receive a confirmation email. If registration is full by the time you pay then you will not receive this confirmation email and you will be on the waiting list. If you do not make the competitor list by the limit date for refunds (specified above), then you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee. You may contact us to ask for your current position on the waiting list.
If you can no longer attend, let us know as soon as possible through the contact link on the General Info page. We often have waiting lists so letting us know you cannot attend allows us to add another person to the competition.
If you would like to change events, you can do so on the register page by simply reselecting your events list, and clicking "Update Registration".
Registration changes and deletions will only be processed after a request through the contact form. We will not accept any changes to registrations via any other platform.
If you have any problems check out the FAQ, or feel free to contact us.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Johnny Morello Kerlaff won with an average of 6.29 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Muhammad Ibrahim Khokhar finished second (7.80) and Max Kwok U Sam (郭愉琛) finished third (8.92).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnny Morello Kerlaff | 5.64 | 6.29 | United Kingdom | 6.60 | 6.38 | 5.64 | 7.21 | 5.88 | |||
| 2 | Muhammad Ibrahim Khokhar | 7.30 | 7.80 | Pakistan | 7.84 | 8.38 | 7.60 | 7.97 | 7.30 | |||
| 3 | Max Kwok U Sam (郭愉琛) | 8.05 | 8.92 | Macau, China | 8.05 | 8.64 | 9.37 | 9.08 | 9.05 | |||
2x2x2 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnny Morello Kerlaff | 1.26 | 1.57 | United Kingdom | 2.50 | 1.26 | 1.54 | 1.91 | 1.26 | |||
| 2 | Ryan McIlree | 1.09 | 2.19 | United Kingdom | 3.00 | 7.32 | 1.37 | 2.20 | 1.09 | |||
| 3 | Thomas Allinson | 1.33 | 2.70 | United Kingdom | 2.78 | 2.76 | 2.55 | 5.40 | 1.33 | |||
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Kwok U Sam (郭愉琛) | 27.84 | 31.10 | Macau, China | 28.07 | 27.84 | 40.25 | 32.81 | 32.41 | |||
| 2 | Johnny Morello Kerlaff | 26.12 | 32.86 | United Kingdom | 33.89 | 26.12 | 32.09 | 39.20 | 32.60 | |||
| 3 | Sam Jones | 32.27 | 35.87 | United Kingdom | 40.96 | 32.27 | 39.69 | 33.21 | 34.71 | |||
5x5x5 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Kwok U Sam (郭愉琛) | 45.05 | 51.13 | Macau, China | 1:02.36 | 54.28 | 46.74 | 45.05 | 52.36 | |||
| 2 | Muhammad Ibrahim Khokhar | 53.36 | 56.78 | NR | Pakistan | 54.22 | 53.36 | 57.33 | 58.79 | 1:02.00 | ||
| 3 | Adam Black | 52.68 | 58.33 | United Kingdom | 57.29 | 55.83 | 1:03.24 | 52.68 | 1:01.88 | |||
Clock
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas Allinson | 3.32 | 3.95 | United Kingdom | 4.09 | 4.16 | 3.32 | 6.40 | 3.61 | |||
| 2 | Sam Jones | 3.84 | 4.20 | United Kingdom | 6.63 | 4.24 | 4.38 | 3.84 | 3.99 | |||
| 3 | Rylan Cheng-Brown | 3.71 | 4.61 | United Kingdom | 3.71 | 5.69 | 4.48 | 4.75 | 4.59 | |||
Pyraminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam Stuart Ferreira | 1.58 | 3.64 | Poland | 1.58 | 3.91 | 4.37 | 4.45 | 2.65 | |||
| 2 | Adam Black | 1.99 | 3.65 | United Kingdom | 4.42 | 4.73 | 1.99 | 3.44 | 3.08 | |||
| 3 | Rylan Cheng-Brown | 2.74 | 3.81 | United Kingdom | 4.91 | 4.46 | 2.87 | 4.10 | 2.74 | |||
Square-1
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryan Eckersley | 6.57 | 8.87 | United Kingdom | 10.96 | 6.57 | 8.36 | 9.69 | 8.55 | |||
| 2 | Eleanor Sinnott | 9.41 | 10.86 | United Kingdom | 10.72 | 9.88 | 9.41 | 11.97 | 13.98 | |||
| 3 | Marcus Siu | 9.56 | 12.09 | United Kingdom | 10.92 | 9.56 | 13.44 | 14.20 | 11.92 | |||
4x4x4 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryan Eckersley | 1:37.89 | DNF | United Kingdom | DNF | 1:37.89 | DNF | |||||
| 2 | Michael Ngan (顏律言) | 2:20.96 | DNF | Hong Kong, China | 2:20.96 | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 3 | Adam Black | 5:19.33 | 7:30.72 | United Kingdom | 5:19.33 | 6:04.83 | 11:08.00 | |||||
5x5x5 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryan Eckersley | 3:17.27 | DNF | United Kingdom | DNF | DNF | 3:17.27 | |||||
| 2 | Michael Ngan (顏律言) | 6:22.25 | DNF | Hong Kong, China | 6:22.25 | 8:07.57 | DNF | |||||

