NZ Cubing Heptathlon 2026

Date: Mar 29, 2026
City: Wellington, New Zealand
Venue: Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus
Address: Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, Wellington 6012
Details: AM103 (Details will be provided via email)
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Jack Maddigan and James Macdiarmid
WCA Delegates: Alex Asbery, Jack Maddigan, and Liam Wadek

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New Zealand Cubing Heptathlon 2026 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition.

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Competitors: 25

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Jack McDougall won with an average of 8.00 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Dylan Himmelfarb finished second (8.17) and Vincent Da Col finished third (9.00).

Alex Asbery - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	9	9.85	11.19	New Zealand	9.85	10.51	11.47	12.70	11.59
	Second round	7	9.76	10.52	New Zealand	10.53	10.25	9.76	11.19	10.79
	First round	8	10.22	11.18	New Zealand	10.22	11.47	11.51	10.56	DNF
4x4x4 Cube	Final	7	38.72	40.98	New Zealand	43.97	40.01	38.72	38.95	DNF
	First round	5	37.57	39.95	New Zealand	39.23	37.57	41.48	42.99	39.15
6x6x6 Cube	Final	4	2:14.06	2:24.65	New Zealand	2:14.06	2:17.87	2:42.03

Andrea Cochrane - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	25	1:05.55		1:18.61		New Zealand	1:18.22	1:22.80	1:14.82	1:05.55	1:38.58
Skewb	First round	14	21.03		27.08		New Zealand	25.29	DNF	21.03	31.02	24.93

Aneurin Hunt - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	12	11.04	12.59	New Zealand	11.46	12.68	11.04	13.64	17.27
	Second round	13	10.97	13.13	New Zealand	16.36	12.03	13.15	10.97	14.20
	First round	11	10.19	12.35	New Zealand	14.40	14.18	10.19	12.62	10.25
4x4x4 Cube	Final	14	49.45	54.49	New Zealand	51.47	53.37	58.70	49.45	58.62
	First round	14	51.06	1:02.28	New Zealand	51.06	53.04	1:04.97	1:49.14	1:08.84
6x6x6 Cube	Final	8	2:42.53	2:45.86	New Zealand	2:49.48	2:42.53	2:45.56
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	5	32		New Zealand	32
Skewb	Final	6	5.59	6.04	New Zealand	5.76	7.57	5.59	5.88	6.49
	First round	7	5.32	5.92	New Zealand	5.56	6.47	5.32	5.73	10.23
Square-1	Final	2	17.68	18.19	New Zealand	24.94	18.10	17.88	17.68	18.59
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	6	DNF	DNF	New Zealand	DNF	DNF	DNF

Avin Vonal Gamage - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	24	53.89		1:04.85		New Zealand	1:06.62	1:01.31	1:08.05	53.89	1:06.62

Charlie Doutch - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	20	21.74		25.11		New Zealand	23.39	21.74	27.64	24.31	33.08

Dylan Himmelfarb - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	2	6.71	8.17	New Zealand	8.88	6.71	6.76	11.25	8.86
	Second round	5	8.68	9.23	New Zealand	9.69	8.80	8.68	9.54	9.34
	First round	3	7.65	8.98	New Zealand	8.52	9.48	10.57	8.93	7.65
4x4x4 Cube	Final	2	31.56	34.09	New Zealand	34.91	34.72	31.56	42.33	32.65
	First round	2	33.60	39.00	New Zealand	42.88	40.75	36.66	39.59	33.60
6x6x6 Cube	Final	5	2:23.04	2:26.51	New Zealand	2:23.04	2:27.66	2:28.84
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	7	39		New Zealand	39
Skewb	Final	4	2.64	4.86	New Zealand	4.98	2.64	6.53	5.25	4.35
	First round	3	3.81	4.30	New Zealand	4.20	4.00	4.71	7.22	3.81
Square-1	Final	3	15.68	18.77	New Zealand	20.06	15.68	20.52	24.33	15.73
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	4	4:31.67	DNF	New Zealand	DNF	4:39.25	4:31.67

Ethan Zhong - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	21	27.01		31.17		New Zealand	27.01	41.68	33.36	27.05	33.10

Jack Maddigan - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	4	7.77	9.45	New Zealand	9.22	7.77	9.00	10.12	10.42
	Second round	1	7.08	8.30	New Zealand	7.84	7.08	9.76	8.58	8.48
	First round	2	6.84	8.95	New Zealand	6.84	8.83	8.00	12.47	10.01
4x4x4 Cube	Final	5	38.66	39.71	New Zealand	38.88	40.66	39.60	38.66	42.54
	First round	6	36.59	40.29	New Zealand	40.19	36.59	39.22	41.45	42.28
6x6x6 Cube	Final	11	2:49.55	2:59.66	New Zealand	2:49.55	3:05.84	3:03.58
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	3	29		New Zealand	29
Skewb	Final	11	6.89	8.66	New Zealand	7.81	6.89	9.24	12.94	8.92
	First round	11	6.85	11.50	New Zealand	14.76	19.30	8.51	6.85	11.24
Square-1	Final	10	28.44	41.09	New Zealand	37.39	28.44	46.46	50.50	39.42
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	5	6:12.39	7:30.21	New Zealand	6:40.64	6:12.39	9:37.60

Jack McDougall - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	1	7.21		8.00	New Zealand	8.00	7.21	7.70	8.30	9.42
	Second round	2	7.21		8.37	New Zealand	8.71	8.76	9.59	7.21	7.64
	First round	1	6.37		7.58	New Zealand	8.86	11.01	6.85	6.37	7.04
4x4x4 Cube	Final	1	29.48		31.51	New Zealand	35.01	33.77	29.48	30.26	30.51
	First round	1	31.17		33.84	New Zealand	31.17	35.58	32.03	33.90	36.27
6x6x6 Cube	Final	1	2:00.25		2:03.46	New Zealand	2:00.25	2:03.38	2:06.76
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	2	23			New Zealand	23
Skewb	Final	1	2.53		2.85	New Zealand	2.95	2.53	2.62	2.97	3.08
	First round	2	2.56		3.57	New Zealand	4.04	5.12	3.34	3.34	2.56
Square-1	Final	1	7.75		8.81	New Zealand	8.47	9.19	8.77	7.75	9.53
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	1	1:30.76	NR	DNF	New Zealand	DNF	1:30.76	DNF

Jack Tarboton - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	23	42.41		48.19		South Africa	53.42	46.70	42.41	48.18	49.69

James Macdiarmid - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	6	7.93	9.70	New Zealand	7.93	8.78	12.09	12.69	8.23
	Second round	3	7.80	8.88	New Zealand	10.36	7.80	9.61	8.61	8.42
	First round	6	8.65	9.97	New Zealand	9.42	10.63	9.87	8.65	10.81
4x4x4 Cube	Final	6	36.22	39.95	New Zealand	43.16	40.38	40.11	36.22	39.36
	First round	4	38.33	39.56	New Zealand	44.66	39.93	39.70	38.33	39.06
6x6x6 Cube	Final	2	2:06.94	2:13.04	New Zealand	2:20.94	2:06.94	2:11.23

James Moore - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Second round	14	12.39	13.36	New Zealand	12.39	13.98	13.02	13.28	13.78
	First round	10	9.74	12.32	New Zealand	13.48	12.75	17.69	10.74	9.74
4x4x4 Cube	Final	10	45.24	46.58	New Zealand	46.36	45.24	49.71	45.38	48.01
	First round	11	41.43	45.94	New Zealand	41.43	45.87	46.58	45.37	49.07
6x6x6 Cube	Final	7	2:23.40	2:42.81	New Zealand	2:23.40	2:59.13	2:45.91
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	4	30		New Zealand	30
Skewb	Final	10	7.10	8.46	New Zealand	9.23	7.10	8.24	16.17	7.90
	First round	9	6.40	8.85	New Zealand	6.40	8.03	8.80	9.73	9.91
Square-1	Final	4	11.15	19.87	New Zealand	19.08	11.15	24.04	21.94	18.58
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	3	4:13.12	DNF	New Zealand	4:13.12	DNF	4:32.21

Joe South - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Second round	18	19.37	22.49	New Zealand	19.37	23.13	24.45	21.95	22.38
	First round	17	16.41	18.71	New Zealand	16.41	19.26	19.81	17.07	34.41
4x4x4 Cube	First round	17	1:09.20	1:19.60	New Zealand	1:13.36	1:32.56	1:09.20	1:12.89	1:34.00
6x6x6 Cube	Final	15	5:19.60	DNF	New Zealand	5:27.44	5:19.60	DNF
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	6	DNF	DNF	New Zealand	DNF	DNS	DNS

Julian Sico - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	10	10.33	11.43	New Zealand	11.31	12.78	10.33	11.72	11.26
	Second round	10	10.32	12.24	New Zealand	DNF	10.32	13.02	10.71	13.00
	First round	13	11.24	13.32	New Zealand	11.27	11.24	15.33	13.38	15.32
4x4x4 Cube	Final	8	37.35	41.10	New Zealand	42.97	42.97	38.88	41.45	37.35
	First round	10	40.27	43.23	New Zealand	46.87	41.88	42.12	45.70	40.27
6x6x6 Cube	Final	13	3:15.14	3:19.06	New Zealand	3:23.44	3:18.60	3:15.14
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	10	DNF		New Zealand	DNF
Skewb	Final	7	4.09	6.54	New Zealand	9.74	4.09	8.28	5.74	5.60
	First round	6	4.52	5.11	New Zealand	6.73	5.50	4.52	4.93	4.91
Square-1	Final	12	33.45	1:04.43	New Zealand	33.45	43.78	1:17.32	1:34.65	1:12.18

Liam Wadek - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	8	9.70	10.01	New Zealand	15.59	9.91	9.70	9.80	10.33
	Second round	8	9.61	10.68	New Zealand	15.12	9.61	10.39	9.92	11.73
	First round	12	11.40	12.75	New Zealand	12.52	12.55	11.40	13.76	13.18
4x4x4 Cube	Final	4	35.71	38.88	New Zealand	38.58	41.93	35.71	37.85	40.20
	First round	3	33.72	39.14	New Zealand	43.22	41.77	33.72	33.85	41.81
6x6x6 Cube	Final	3	2:02.60	2:15.97	New Zealand	2:02.60	2:33.82	2:11.49
Skewb	Final	8	5.01	6.94	New Zealand	5.01	7.54	7.63	8.72	5.66
	First round	10	8.46	9.85	New Zealand	17.36	9.82	8.46	10.60	9.14
Square-1	Final	8	23.65	29.64	New Zealand	41.04	35.17	25.65	23.65	28.10

Luke Steele - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	7	9.30	9.86	New Zealand	14.08	9.30	9.31	9.60	10.67
	Second round	11	9.54	12.78	New Zealand	13.85	12.20	12.29	15.76	9.54
	First round	7	9.21	10.31	New Zealand	9.21	10.08	13.19	10.73	10.11
4x4x4 Cube	Final	13	48.21	52.52	New Zealand	49.87	54.07	58.97	53.61	48.21
	First round	12	41.88	46.98	New Zealand	41.88	45.59	45.79	49.56	50.72
6x6x6 Cube	Final	10	2:54.40	2:58.34	New Zealand	3:02.42	2:54.40	2:58.19
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	10	DNF		New Zealand	DNF
Skewb	Final	2	2.59	3.45	New Zealand	3.10	3.00	4.26	6.09	2.59
	First round	1	3.02	3.36	New Zealand	3.76	3.27	3.02	3.05	4.51
Square-1	Final	7	16.68	24.54	New Zealand	20.57	16.68	41.32	25.29	27.77

Nguyen Duc Gia Huy - Vietnam WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	19	15.66	22.12	Vietnam	27.19	15.66	15.94	23.41	27.00
4x4x4 Cube	First round	18	1:39.98	1:51.92	Vietnam	1:45.78	1:57.49	1:52.49	1:39.98	2:08.10
Skewb	First round	13	17.29	23.19	Vietnam	17.29	24.92	28.74	26.86	17.79

Oscar Welton-Rosie - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Second round	16	15.20	16.75	New Zealand	17.07	17.01	16.42	15.20	16.81
	First round	16	12.47	16.43	New Zealand	16.06	12.47	17.82	18.35	15.41
4x4x4 Cube	First round	15	1:03.29	1:12.05	New Zealand	1:22.32	1:07.78	1:22.80	1:06.04	1:03.29
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	10	DNF		New Zealand	DNF

Paula Maddigan - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	22	34.33	42.37	New Zealand	41.47	40.80	1:05.50	44.83	34.33
4x4x4 Cube	First round	19	2:28.48	2:42.00	New Zealand	2:57.96	2:28.48	2:35.15	2:42.24	2:48.61
Skewb	First round	15	28.09	33.74	New Zealand	28.09	50.77	32.93	38.98	29.32

Riley Wicks - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	5	8.08	9.65	New Zealand	8.08	10.86	8.45	10.15	10.34
	Second round	6	8.73	9.92	New Zealand	8.73	8.80	11.48	11.25	9.70
	First round	4	7.38	9.01	New Zealand	8.39	9.59	12.29	9.04	7.38
4x4x4 Cube	Final	9	35.52	41.35	New Zealand	46.11	35.52	40.88	42.31	40.85
	First round	8	36.75	41.93	New Zealand	45.92	DNF	40.69	39.17	36.75
6x6x6 Cube	Final	6	2:35.50	2:38.15	New Zealand	2:42.69	2:36.25	2:35.50
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	6	38		New Zealand	38
Skewb	Final	5	4.02	5.02	New Zealand	5.24	4.02	7.77	5.59	4.23
	First round	4	4.13	4.91	New Zealand	5.18	4.61	4.13	4.93	5.27
Square-1	Final	5	18.77	20.92	New Zealand	22.15	21.86	18.77	20.44	20.47

Te Rakaherea Reweti - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Second round	15	14.72		16.15		New Zealand	17.32	16.49	14.96	14.72	17.00
	First round	15	13.47		15.52		New Zealand	16.60	19.16	16.04	13.93	13.47

Terence Brown - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Second round	17	18.48	20.42	New Zealand	20.26	20.48	20.52	23.24	18.48
	First round	18	16.09	20.30	New Zealand	19.29	16.09	22.55	19.06	22.90
4x4x4 Cube	First round	16	1:07.55	1:14.14	New Zealand	1:15.98	1:07.55	1:15.81	1:21.78	1:10.62
6x6x6 Cube	Final	16	8:20.54	DNF	New Zealand	8:20.54	DNS	DNS
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	9	69		New Zealand	69
Skewb	Final	9	7.42	7.78	New Zealand	7.56	8.52	7.42	8.12	7.66
	First round	8	7.94	8.67	New Zealand	8.70	7.94	8.67	9.54	8.65
Square-1	Final	6	22.89	24.48	New Zealand	23.99	24.69	22.89	24.76	29.44

Tom Nelson - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	13	12.26		13.40	New Zealand	12.26	12.92	13.19	14.08	16.51
	Second round	12	12.07		13.00	New Zealand	12.30	16.01	13.51	12.07	13.18
	First round	14	13.11		14.28	New Zealand	14.70	13.71	13.11	14.42	15.93
4x4x4 Cube	Final	12	46.12		49.64	New Zealand	51.51	46.72	50.69	46.12	54.49
	First round	13	48.70		53.72	New Zealand	48.70	55.61	53.83	54.26	53.07
6x6x6 Cube	Final	12	2:55.99		3:07.69	New Zealand	3:17.61	3:09.47	2:55.99
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	1	20	NR		New Zealand	20
Skewb	First round	12	10.04		14.29	New Zealand	10.04	26.82	14.02	13.68	15.17
Square-1	Final	9	23.96		38.44	New Zealand	31.70	50.07	50.39	23.96	33.56
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Final	2	3:29.98		DNF	New Zealand	DNF	DNF	3:29.98

Vincent Da Col - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	3	8.37	9.00	New Zealand	8.93	8.47	12.10	9.60	8.37
	Second round	4	7.70	9.14	New Zealand	9.14	7.70	9.04	10.36	9.24
	First round	5	6.48	9.39	New Zealand	9.58	6.48	9.70	9.95	8.88
4x4x4 Cube	Final	3	34.25	36.98	New Zealand	34.34	34.25	43.25	38.66	37.93
	First round	9	35.61	42.11	New Zealand	44.39	36.88	48.63	35.61	45.07
6x6x6 Cube	Final	9	2:44.43	2:53.49	New Zealand	2:46.07	2:44.43	3:09.97

Zack Aden - New Zealand WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	11	10.32	11.45	New Zealand	17.68	10.73	11.82	10.32	11.79
	Second round	9	9.83	11.87	New Zealand	11.95	11.96	15.75	11.71	9.83
	First round	9	9.76	11.73	New Zealand	10.15	14.88	9.76	12.26	12.77
4x4x4 Cube	Final	11	41.83	47.43	New Zealand	41.83	45.81	47.36	49.49	49.11
	First round	7	37.65	40.80	New Zealand	37.65	42.84	43.21	38.46	41.10
6x6x6 Cube	Final	14	3:28.73	3:36.30	New Zealand	3:28.73	3:41.09	3:39.07
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Final	8	44		New Zealand	44
Skewb	Final	3	3.46	4.48	New Zealand	4.73	6.10	4.89	3.82	3.46
	First round	5	3.81	4.99	New Zealand	5.48	4.73	6.29	3.81	4.77
Square-1	Final	11	37.60	55.62	New Zealand	49.83	1:06.31	37.60	59.20	57.82