NAC Prep in Palisades 2026
- Date
- Jun 20 - 21, 2026
- City
- West Nyack, New York, United States
- Venue
Palisades Center
- Address
- 1000 Palisades Center Dr, West Nyack, NY 10994
- Details
4th Floor, Harry & Thelma Adler Community Room
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Aaron Jake Wong, Empire State Cubing, Ian Liong, Ishan Donavalli, Matthew Liong, Ravi Donavalli, and Steven Wintringham
- WCA Delegates
- Chris Chi, Chris Martin, David Krasne, and Steven Wintringham
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Due to the limited space, each competitor can bring at most 1 guest to the competition. The Harry & Thelma Adler community room is located on the 4th floor in front of the Ice Skating Rink on your right hand side. Proceeds from this competition support the Flushing Glow Community Center.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 93
- 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 110 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $40 (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 50% 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.
To allow us to accommodate more people overall with our tight schedule, some events will have lower registration limits than the entire competition. Out of courtesy for other competitors, please do not register for these events if you don't actually plan to compete in them.
6x6: 36 people
7x7: 36 peopleRegistrations for each event will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. The per-event waiting list will be managed manually and is available below.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Aaron Jake Wong won with an average of 6.55 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Ayden Dincher finished second (6.62) and Kavin Prince finished third (7.09).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aaron Jake Wong | 5.52 | 6.55 | United States | 6.60 | 6.66 | 5.52 | 6.66 | 6.39 | |||
| 2 | Ayden Dincher | 6.14 | 6.62 | United States | 6.14 | 7.80 | 6.48 | 6.97 | 6.42 | |||
| 3 | Kavin Prince | 6.22 | 7.09 | United States | 7.22 | 6.89 | 6.22 | 9.58 | 7.16 | |||
2x2x2 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ayden Dincher | 0.66 | 1.26 | United States | 0.66 | 2.75 | 0.87 | 1.61 | 1.31 | |||
| 2 | Quinn Maloney | 0.79 | 1.54 | United States | 0.79 | 1.31 | 1.75 | 1.57 | 3.49 | |||
| 3 | Chris Chi | 1.28 | 2.02 | United States | 3.04 | 2.42 | 1.28 | 1.76 | 1.87 | |||
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Curtis Chai | 21.89 | 24.40 | United States | 23.70 | 21.89 | 29.76 | 23.48 | 26.03 | |||
| 2 | Ayden Dincher | 27.24 | 27.63 | United States | 27.58 | 27.60 | 27.72 | 29.33 | 27.24 | |||
| 3 | Brandon Nunez | 24.81 | 27.69 | United States | 32.66 | 27.55 | 27.55 | 27.98 | 24.81 | |||
5x5x5 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brandon Nunez | 39.01 | 45.41 | United States | 49.31 | 47.50 | 46.95 | 41.78 | 39.01 | |||
| 2 | Ayden Dincher | 48.40 | 51.92 | United States | 52.76 | 57.38 | 52.21 | 50.80 | 48.40 | |||
| 3 | Curtis Chai | 48.03 | 55.15 | United States | 54.45 | 48.03 | 55.16 | 55.90 | 55.83 | |||
6x6x6 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brandon Nunez | 1:17.76 | 1:23.49 | United States | 1:27.90 | 1:24.80 | 1:17.76 | |||||
| 2 | Ayden Dincher | 1:34.17 | 1:35.95 | United States | 1:39.09 | 1:34.17 | 1:34.60 | |||||
| 3 | Parker Trager | 1:41.92 | 1:43.93 | United States | 1:43.43 | 1:41.92 | 1:46.45 | |||||
7x7x7 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brandon Nunez | 2:06.79 | 2:12.41 | United States | 2:17.50 | 2:12.95 | 2:06.79 | |||||
| 2 | Ayden Dincher | 2:37.86 | 2:49.89 | United States | 2:37.86 | 3:07.88 | 2:43.94 | |||||
| 3 | Evan Waters | 2:53.84 | 3:03.70 | United States | 2:53.84 | 3:11.57 | 3:05.70 | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah Kim | 7.64 | 9.84 | United States | 8.08 | 11.23 | 11.78 | 10.20 | 7.64 | |||
| 2 | Ayden Dincher | 8.90 | 11.40 | United States | 12.13 | 11.83 | 8.90 | 10.72 | 11.65 | |||
| 3 | Parker Trager | 9.71 | 12.29 | United States | 9.71 | 12.34 | 13.25 | 16.51 | 11.29 | |||
Clock
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evan Waters | 2.22 | 2.91 | United States | 3.06 | 2.67 | 2.22 | 3.00 | 5.43 | |||
| 2 | Aaron Jake Wong | 2.17 | 3.18 | United States | 3.59 | 2.90 | 3.89 | 3.05 | 2.17 | |||
| 3 | Quinn Maloney | 2.40 | 3.53 | United States | 3.40 | 4.31 | 2.40 | 4.36 | 2.89 | |||
Megaminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew Liong | 28.57 | 29.86 | NR | Indonesia | 30.64 | 34.59 | 28.61 | 30.34 | 28.57 | ||
| 2 | Curtis Chai | 38.99 | 40.17 | United States | 41.63 | 40.01 | 39.60 | 40.90 | 38.99 | |||
| 3 | Parker Trager | 38.98 | 41.15 | United States | 42.14 | 48.92 | 38.98 | 41.39 | 39.93 | |||
Pyraminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milan Vincent Andric | 1.57 | 1.87 | United States | 1.99 | 2.01 | 1.61 | 2.31 | 1.57 | |||
| 2 | Clem Tucker | 1.66 | 2.06 | United States | 2.33 | 1.66 | 1.86 | 2.00 | DNF | |||
| 3 | Leland Pak | 2.00 | 2.42 | United States | 2.20 | 3.05 | 2.00 | 2.02 | 3.06 | |||
Skewb
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quinn Maloney | 1.78 | 2.22 | United States | 4.62 | 2.32 | 2.37 | 1.78 | 1.97 | |||
| 2 | Ayden Dincher | 2.51 | 3.15 | United States | 3.01 | 2.95 | 2.51 | 7.28 | 3.50 | |||
| 3 | Chris Chi | 2.99 | 3.35 | United States | 3.51 | 2.99 | DNF | 2.99 | 3.55 | |||
Square-1
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hassan Khanani | 4.65 | 5.51 | United States | 6.09 | 4.65 | 4.88 | 6.54 | 5.55 | |||
| 2 | Ayden Dincher | 6.48 | 8.29 | United States | 6.48 | 10.31 | 7.94 | 10.19 | 6.74 | |||
| 3 | Aaron Jake Wong | 8.48 | 9.26 | United States | 8.48 | 10.81 | 8.78 | 9.15 | 9.84 | |||