Head to UBC Morning 2026

Date
Oct 3, 2026
City
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Venue

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC

Address
1961 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Details

Room 261

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Asher Kim-Magierek, Isaac Davies, Speedcubing Canada, and Winston Chow
WCA Delegates
DaYeong Kim (김다영), Ethan Rusnak, Heewon Hwang, Kevin Matthews, Kyle Van Straaten, and Louis Meunier
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Information

Please note: we are hosting two mini-competitions on the same day! They have different events — you can choose between Head to UBC Morning 2026 and Head to UBC Afternoon 2026. You can only participate in one of the two competitions. If you register for both of them, only one registration will be accepted.

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Events
Main event
Competitors
34
Registration period

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Highlights
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Isaac Davies won with an average of 8.23 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Kyle Van Straaten finished second (8.31) and Justin Chew finished third (8.48).

Aamir Saifee - India WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Final 4 7.69 9.11 India 10.077.6910.658.089.18
First round 2 5.86 8.00 India 8.855.867.817.349.47
Pyraminx Final 4 3.66 5.20 India 3.877.224.52DNF3.66

Alana Chan - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 9 8.31 10.49 Canada 8.31DNF8.5710.7112.18

Ben Wessels - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 16 9.57 14.52 Canada 10.7712.3920.399.5722.67
Pyraminx Final 16 5.74 8.29 Canada 10.948.817.788.285.74
Skewb Final 3 3.91 5.12 Canada 5.743.916.685.284.35

Bobby Moon - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 23 16.78 20.15 Canada 20.2528.7022.0818.1116.78
Pyraminx Final 13 7.08 7.74 Canada 7.087.817.6612.927.76
Skewb Final 10 8.63 10.12 Canada 9.1516.0710.9310.288.63

Caleb Lee - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 15 10.61 13.89 Canada 10.8312.0810.61DNF18.76

DaYeong Kim (김다영) - Republic of Korea WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 13 12.49 12.94 Republic of Korea 12.4913.1012.6613.0517.63
Pyraminx Final 14 6.70 7.79 Republic of Korea 8.026.706.9219.728.43
Skewb Final 12 8.60 11.14 Republic of Korea 11.8612.7510.3311.238.60

David Vandervelde - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 32 29.01 50.91 Canada 39.7840.211:29.061:12.7429.01

Emmett Dharmraja Costa - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 24 20.41 24.74 Canada 23.3728.3620.4129.2022.50
Skewb Final 19 13.35 17.03 Canada 13.3526.9921.9715.6113.50

Eve Gao - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 14 12.19 13.49 Canada 13.8715.0912.3712.1914.23
Pyraminx Final 17 5.57 9.37 Canada 8.6414.749.1610.315.57
Skewb Final 15 12.78 15.20 Canada 18.3712.7815.4315.4014.76

Isaac Davies - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Final 1 7.85 8.23 Canada 7.977.858.308.419.42
First round 3 7.81 8.06 Canada 7.818.038.038.1112.10
Pyraminx Final 7 5.56 5.98 Canada 5.726.685.566.206.02
Skewb Final 17 10.92 16.44 Canada 10.9213.8814.4729.0320.98

Joanne Chew - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 33 50.63 1:08.74 Canada 1:07.111:21.1150.631:13.541:05.57
Pyraminx Final 23 15.08 19.94 Canada 20.8422.7815.0826.0716.20
Skewb Final 22 1:01.71 DNF Canada 1:05.771:56.001:01.71DNFDNF

Jonas Smith - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 29 26.77 33.92 Canada 30.7534.8036.2236.8526.77

Justin Chew - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Final 3 8.28 8.48 Canada 8.288.688.858.348.41
First round 4 7.78 8.76 Canada 9.209.227.8710.867.78
Pyraminx Final 11 5.44 7.09 Canada 6.5910.188.225.446.46
Skewb Final 4 4.04 5.27 Canada 4.955.165.696.704.04

Kevin Matthews - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 12 9.96 12.40 Canada 11.3112.8213.0713.099.96
Pyraminx Final 15 5.45 7.85 Canada 8.905.459.026.548.10
Skewb Final 11 7.07 10.18 Canada 7.8817.759.1413.517.07

Kyle Van Straaten - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Final 2 7.38 8.31 Canada 8.758.368.967.817.38
First round 1 6.93 7.55 Canada 8.037.536.939.397.08
Pyraminx Final 10 4.77 6.53 Canada 5.536.544.777.867.51
Skewb Final 2 2.90 4.59 Canada 3.594.002.906.666.19

Louis Meunier - United States WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Final 5 7.39 9.14 United States 8.337.399.3711.279.71
First round 6 8.03 9.43 United States 9.739.0510.559.528.03
Pyraminx Final 9 5.03 6.32 United States 6.496.617.455.035.86

Matteo Ganeshpuri Costa - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 27 28.62 29.13 Canada 30.8228.6228.7829.3229.30
Pyraminx Final 20 10.28 12.71 Canada 13.7117.2011.4612.9510.28

Max Qi - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 21 14.04 18.68 Canada 20.0718.9014.0417.06DNF
Pyraminx Final 22 11.16 13.36 Canada 15.1613.3211.1614.5812.18
Skewb Final 6 6.08 6.53 Canada 6.086.626.416.567.21

Michael Zhang - United States WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 31 37.58 47.06 United States 43.421:07.6437.5847.5450.23

Naitik Kaushal - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 11 11.48 11.67 Canada 11.4812.6311.5011.7111.79
Pyraminx Final 1 2.34 2.64 Canada 3.752.842.342.342.75
Skewb Final 5 3.90 5.66 Canada 3.906.095.077.875.81

Nathan Siwen Wang (王思文) - China WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 18 14.89 16.22 China 14.8918.5417.0115.7115.95
Pyraminx Final 2 1.92 2.65 China 5.172.962.741.922.26
Skewb Final 9 5.41 9.59 China 15.915.4110.9410.127.72

Owen Zong - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 19 14.70 17.62 Canada 17.4814.7019.6215.75DNF
Pyraminx Final 18 6.55 11.27 Canada 13.2713.577.796.5512.74
Skewb Final 13 10.08 11.82 Canada 11.9912.8013.8110.0810.67

Parker Montgomery - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 22 14.39 19.09 Canada 14.3921.8418.9416.4923.70
Pyraminx Final 25 17.20 DNF Canada DNF20.77DNF17.2019.71
Skewb Final 21 29.38 44.69 Canada 1:05.7438.0329.3832.561:03.47

Rob Neufeld - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 17 13.03 15.99 Canada 17.4516.6713.0315.8315.48
Pyraminx Final 24 27.66 32.64 Canada 27.6640.5429.0428.33DNF
Skewb Final 20 23.97 28.00 Canada 27.7123.9727.0131.5129.29

Runyi Chen (陈润熠) - China WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Final 6 9.03 10.06 China 10.599.339.0312.7710.26
First round 7 7.95 9.69 China 9.4310.509.809.837.95
Pyraminx Final 8 3.09 6.12 China 6.176.833.095.367.60
Skewb Final 16 13.59 15.60 China 14.0019.9516.4813.5916.32

Runzheng Chen - China WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 26 21.14 28.83 China 32.61DNF25.6528.2321.14
Pyraminx Final 6 3.77 5.96 China 5.873.775.456.556.72

Ryan Hiew - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Final 8 10.20 10.74 Canada 10.2010.9010.5010.8211.50
First round 8 9.05 9.82 Canada 10.379.7511.069.059.35
Pyraminx Final 5 5.23 5.77 Canada 6.326.465.245.755.23
Skewb Final 7 6.22 6.58 Canada 6.466.226.587.256.71

Shinyoung Park - Republic of Korea WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 34 1:36.08 1:53.50 Republic of Korea 2:09.941:39.091:51.461:36.083:56.87

Spencer Fraser - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 20 16.76 17.85 Canada 16.7618.6317.4617.4622.08
Pyraminx Final 12 6.16 7.13 Canada 7.116.166.498.967.78
Skewb Final 8 6.23 7.19 Canada 6.467.566.237.547.70

Syrus Chau - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 25 22.01 25.60 Canada 27.6023.6131.2325.6022.01
Pyraminx Final 21 8.88 12.85 Canada 15.668.8812.1320.4310.75
Skewb Final 18 14.03 16.93 Canada 14.0314.89DNF15.8420.05

Terri Davies - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 30 37.72 39.26 Canada 40.2537.7239.461:00.9538.07

Tonnam Tantikamnerdkul (ต้นน้ำ ตันติกำเนิดกุล) - Thailand WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 10 9.64 11.67 Thailand 11.389.6411.3912.2317.32
Pyraminx Final 3 3.54 4.81 Thailand 3.547.155.914.573.96
Skewb Final 1 2.50 3.16 Thailand 2.882.503.857.822.76

Yunseong Lee - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube First round 28 28.23 33.89 Canada 30.89DNF32.8428.2337.94
Pyraminx Final 19 10.09 11.90 Canada 10.23DNF10.0911.3514.12
Skewb Final 14 12.59 14.82 Canada 12.5918.5015.8415.3713.24

Zimo Li (李子镆) - Canada WCA profile

Event Round # Best Average Representing Solves
3x3x3 Cube Final 7 8.85 10.24 Canada 8.8511.4211.779.399.90
First round 5 7.64 9.03 Canada 8.457.649.329.329.99
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