Minnesota Championship 2026
- Date
- City
- St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States
- Venue
River's Edge Convention Center
- Address
- 10 4th Avenue South St. Cloud, MN 56301
- Details
Glenn Carlson Hall
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Joe Kucala, Lisa Kucala, and Midwest Cubing Association
- WCA Delegates
- Lisa Kucala and Walker Welch
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information

This is the 3rd annual Minnesota Championship!
This competition is supported by the Midwest Cubing Association.
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We have local Facebook groups for our Cubing Area. Feel free to join the Minnesota Cubing Community and follow the Midwest Cubing Assocation for information and announcements on upcoming competitions.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 151
- 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 200 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $60 (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 75% 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.
Any spectator can attend for free.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Mihir Narayan won with an average of 7.66 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Nathan Phillips finished second (7.74) and Tyler Robinson finished third (7.81).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mihir Narayan | 7.10 | 7.66 | India | 8.68 | 7.90 | 7.67 | 7.42 | 7.10 | |||
| 2 | Nathan Phillips | 6.85 | 7.74 | United States | 9.41 | 6.99 | 7.20 | 6.85 | 9.03 | |||
| 3 | Tyler Robinson | 7.40 | 7.81 | United States | 8.31 | 9.20 | 7.58 | 7.53 | 7.40 | |||
2x2x2 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Rahn | 1.22 | 1.60 | United States | 1.22 | 1.33 | 3.70 | 1.47 | 2.00 | |||
| 2 | Ivan ThanhDanh Duong | 1.55 | 1.82 | United States | 1.98 | 1.81 | 1.66 | 1.55 | 4.46 | |||
| 3 | Walker Welch | 1.74 | 2.37 | United States | 1.74 | 2.18 | 2.58 | 2.34 | 2.91 | |||
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaius Young | 27.03 | 27.53 | United States | 27.03 | 27.21 | 27.06 | 28.32 | 29.80 | |||
| 2 | Mihir Narayan | 24.05 | 27.70 | India | 31.73 | 30.35 | 24.05 | 27.29 | 25.46 | |||
| 3 | Ivan ThanhDanh Duong | 25.00 | 27.78 | United States | 32.37 | 29.61 | 28.69 | 25.00 | 25.03 | |||
5x5x5 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Phillips | 44.75 | 47.73 | United States | 48.54 | 44.75 | 52.73 | 48.48 | 46.17 | |||
| 2 | Mihir Narayan | 43.86 | 47.98 | India | 49.65 | 53.97 | 43.86 | 46.89 | 47.40 | |||
| 3 | Kaius Young | 46.39 | 51.19 | United States | 48.46 | 46.39 | 55.63 | 56.88 | 49.48 | |||
6x6x6 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Phillips | 1:22.76 | 1:25.22 | United States | 1:22.76 | 1:27.53 | 1:25.36 | |||||
| 2 | Ivan ThanhDanh Duong | 1:37.19 | 1:37.84 | United States | 1:38.34 | 1:37.19 | 1:37.99 | |||||
| 3 | Kaius Young | 1:29.73 | 1:45.40 | United States | 1:29.73 | 2:09.30 | 1:37.18 | |||||
7x7x7 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Phillips | 2:04.61 | 2:14.62 | United States | 2:19.17 | 2:04.61 | 2:20.09 | |||||
| 2 | Walker Welch | 2:32.51 | 2:36.34 | United States | 2:32.51 | 2:42.81 | 2:33.70 | |||||
| 3 | Kaius Young | 2:41.64 | 2:46.12 | United States | 2:41.84 | 2:54.89 | 2:41.64 | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andy Wong | 9.68 | 12.42 | United States | 10.67 | 13.40 | 9.68 | 13.20 | 13.70 | |||
| 2 | Tyler Robinson | 12.50 | 13.49 | United States | 12.79 | 14.00 | 12.50 | 15.69 | 13.68 | |||
| 3 | Nathan Rahn | 12.83 | 13.72 | United States | 16.79 | 13.91 | 12.83 | 14.40 | 12.86 | |||
Clock
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivan ThanhDanh Duong | 2.24 | 3.39 | United States | 5.04 | 3.15 | 2.96 | 2.24 | 4.05 | |||
| 2 | Vyom Sharma | 3.64 | 3.88 | India | 4.52 | 3.64 | 3.87 | 4.01 | 3.77 | |||
| 3 | Nathan Rahn | 3.94 | 4.62 | United States | 4.90 | 4.52 | 5.03 | 3.94 | 4.43 | |||
Megaminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyler Robinson | 33.45 | 36.50 | United States | 33.45 | 51.18 | 33.87 | 37.60 | 38.02 | |||
| 2 | Ivan ThanhDanh Duong | 41.51 | 47.02 | United States | 41.51 | 48.20 | 51.83 | 46.80 | 46.07 | |||
| 3 | Nathan Phillips | 45.40 | 48.55 | United States | 45.40 | 53.03 | 47.30 | 46.76 | 51.59 | |||
Pyraminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carl Overbye | 2.19 | 2.80 | United States | 2.19 | 3.38 | 2.65 | 3.51 | 2.37 | |||
| 2 | Ivan ThanhDanh Duong | 2.50 | 3.15 | United States | 3.02 | 3.25 | 3.17 | 2.50 | 5.03 | |||
| 3 | Nathan Rahn | 2.65 | 3.24 | United States | 2.65 | 3.26 | 3.24 | 4.05 | 3.22 | |||
Skewb
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Rahn | 1.71 | 2.91 | United States | 1.71 | 2.28 | 3.46 | 3.03 | 3.41 | |||
| 2 | Tyler Robinson | 1.88 | 3.00 | United States | 1.88 | 2.23 | 4.01 | 4.11 | 2.75 | |||
| 3 | John Wheeler | 1.97 | 3.82 | United States | 4.05 | 1.97 | 3.50 | 5.37 | 3.92 | |||
Square-1
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Rahn | 7.68 | 8.67 | United States | 9.15 | 7.90 | 8.96 | 7.68 | 11.80 | |||
| 2 | Ivan ThanhDanh Duong | 8.24 | 10.81 | United States | 11.52 | 12.11 | 12.03 | 8.89 | 8.24 | |||
| 3 | Nathan Phillips | 8.10 | 10.82 | United States | 10.19 | 11.51 | 8.10 | 10.77 | 14.16 | |||