NZ North Island Championship 2025
- Date
- Jul 11 - 13, 2025
- City
- Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Venue
Community Leisure Centre
- Address
- 569 Ferguson Street, Terrace End, Palmerston North 4410
- Details
Neville Butler Hall
- Website
- NZ North Island Championship 2025 website
- Contact
- Organizer
- Speedcubing New Zealand
- WCA Delegates
- Alex Asbery, Caleb Hall, Jack Maddigan, and Liam Wadek
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
NZ North Island Championship 2025 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition.
This competition is open to all competitors regardless of age, experience or skill. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary.
Please make sure to read all the information in the FAQ and other tabs before registering. All competitors should be familiar with the information in these tabs.

- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 59
- 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.Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 120 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $35 (New Zealand Dollar).
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.
Payment
Payment is made via the external website with two options to pay, either bank transfer or Paypal.
Your registration is not complete and will not be processed until you have paid the registration fee. Contact the organisational team if you encounter an issue.
Waiting List
Once the competitor limit has filled, a waiting list will be created.
You must pay the registration fee to be added to the waiting list.
New registrations will be added to the waiting list in order of payment.
If a competitor withdraws, the next person on the waiting list will be added to the competition.
The last date to make it off the waiting list would be 24 hours before the competition begins.
All competitors who remain on the waiting list after the competition will be fully refunded.Changing Events
Competitors may change their registered events by contacting the organisational team.
Additional events can be added until registration closes. After this date competitors may only remove events.
It is also acceptable to not show up for any event you do not want to compete in.Cancelling Registration
If you can no longer attend the competition, please contact the organisational team as soon as possible to cancel your registration.
Cancelling your registration enables us to maximise attendance by letting another competitor on the waiting list to attend. - Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Carol Chai won with an average of 8.49 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Jack McDougall finished second (8.81) and Jack Maddigan finished third (9.07).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carol Chai | 7.45 | 8.49 | New Zealand | 9.31 | 10.06 | 7.45 | 7.96 | 8.20 | |||
| 2 | Jack McDougall | 7.76 | 8.81 | New Zealand | 7.76 | 9.41 | 7.89 | 9.84 | 9.13 | |||
| 3 | Jack Maddigan | 7.58 | 9.07 | New Zealand | 8.83 | 10.01 | 7.58 | 9.96 | 8.42 | |||
2x2x2 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ram Thakkar (राम ठक्कर) | 1.13 | 1.47 | India | 1.26 | 1.83 | 1.33 | 2.41 | 1.13 | |||
| 2 | Jack Maddigan | 1.57 | 1.67 | New Zealand | 4.42 | 1.57 | 1.58 | 1.74 | 1.68 | |||
| 3 | Carol Chai | 1.57 | 1.75 | New Zealand | 1.78 | 1.70 | 1.76 | 1.84 | 1.57 | |||
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack McDougall | 29.87 | 32.97 | New Zealand | 33.12 | 33.29 | 29.87 | 32.91 | 32.88 | |||
| 2 | Kalin Doherty | 32.16 | 34.88 | Ireland | 34.44 | 32.16 | 35.23 | 40.12 | 34.98 | |||
| 3 | Carol Chai | 27.49 | 36.21 | New Zealand | 36.45 | 38.75 | 36.63 | 35.55 | 27.49 | |||
5x5x5 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack McDougall | 59.27 | 1:04.68 | New Zealand | 1:10.69 | 1:05.23 | 1:05.29 | 1:03.51 | 59.27 | |||
| 2 | Carol Chai | 55.98 | 1:05.79 | New Zealand | 55.98 | 1:01.52 | 1:08.22 | 1:10.16 | 1:07.64 | |||
| 3 | Brandon Harris | 1:04.39 | 1:06.69 | New Zealand | DNF | 1:07.82 | 1:05.07 | 1:07.19 | 1:04.39 | |||
6x6x6 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack McDougall | 2:11.02 | 2:12.54 | New Zealand | 2:11.92 | 2:11.02 | 2:14.68 | |||||
| 2 | Kalin Doherty | 2:06.76 | 2:12.89 | Ireland | 2:17.44 | 2:14.47 | 2:06.76 | |||||
| 3 | Carol Chai | 2:12.21 | 2:14.46 | New Zealand | 2:12.21 | 2:16.51 | 2:14.67 | |||||
7x7x7 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam Wadek | 3:01.59 | 3:11.14 | New Zealand | 3:01.59 | 3:03.91 | 3:27.92 | |||||
| 2 | Jack McDougall | 3:13.13 | 3:24.14 | New Zealand | 3:24.59 | 3:13.13 | 3:34.70 | |||||
| 3 | Brandon Harris | 3:33.92 | 3:36.74 | New Zealand | 3:33.92 | 3:34.90 | 3:41.41 | |||||
3x3x3 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack McDougall | 26.18 | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | 26.18 | 40.07 | |||||
| 2 | Tom Nelson | 27.61 | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | 27.61 | DNF | |||||
| 3 | Cole Campbell | 34.31 | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | 34.31 | DNF | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oliver Jenks | 13.06 | 14.34 | New Zealand | 13.40 | 13.06 | 15.47 | 16.30 | 14.15 | |||
| 2 | Dylan Himmelfarb | 12.14 | 16.55 | New Zealand | 17.73 | 12.14 | 17.59 | 14.34 | 33.01 | |||
| 3 | Vincent Da Col | 16.22 | 17.00 | New Zealand | 16.39 | 22.52 | 16.96 | 17.65 | 16.22 | |||
Clock
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edwin Shen | 3.02 | 4.53 | New Zealand | 4.25 | 3.02 | 5.52 | 3.83 | DNF | |||
| 2 | Brandon Harris | 2.51 | 4.99 | New Zealand | 2.51 | DNF | 5.22 | 5.18 | 4.56 | |||
| 3 | Liam Wadek | 4.42 | 5.10 | New Zealand | 4.64 | DNF | 6.20 | 4.42 | 4.46 | |||
Megaminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brandon Harris | 34.41 | 36.15 | New Zealand | 34.94 | 34.41 | 35.57 | 38.05 | 37.94 | |||
| 2 | Jack McDougall | 44.77 | 47.46 | New Zealand | 46.28 | 48.90 | 44.77 | 50.67 | 47.21 | |||
| 3 | Riley Wicks | 51.93 | 56.34 | New Zealand | 1:14.01 | 53.76 | 56.19 | 59.08 | 51.93 | |||
Pyraminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carol Chai | 2.06 | 2.44 | New Zealand | 4.17 | 2.84 | 2.06 | 2.28 | 2.19 | |||
| 2 | Levi Hetherington | 2.08 | 2.48 | New Zealand | DNF | 2.70 | 2.08 | 2.13 | 2.61 | |||
| 3 | Dylan Himmelfarb | 1.41 | 2.82 | New Zealand | 1.41 | 2.57 | 3.54 | DNF | 2.34 | |||
Skewb
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack McDougall | 2.75 | 3.27 | New Zealand | 3.34 | 3.10 | 3.37 | 5.88 | 2.75 | |||
| 2 | William Jackson | 3.45 | 3.63 | New Zealand | 3.58 | 3.45 | 4.66 | 3.62 | 3.69 | |||
| 3 | Luke Steele | 3.04 | 4.01 | New Zealand | 3.73 | 4.43 | 3.86 | 4.91 | 3.04 | |||
Square-1
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack McDougall | 8.25 | 11.32 | New Zealand | DNF | 11.98 | 12.99 | 8.98 | 8.25 | |||
| 2 | Edwin Shen | 7.35 | 11.84 | New Zealand | 15.45 | 12.68 | 7.35 | 14.01 | 8.84 | |||
| 3 | Brandon Harris | 7.61 | 14.25 | New Zealand | 19.61 | 14.91 | 14.69 | 13.14 | 7.61 | |||
4x4x4 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Nelson | 1:47.52 | NR | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | 1:47.52 | ||||
| 2 | Jack McDougall | 2:42.96 | DNF | New Zealand | 2:42.96 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3 | James Moore | 4:30.28 | 5:23.50 | New Zealand | 6:26.56 | 5:13.66 | 4:30.28 | |||||
5x5x5 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack McDougall | 6:18.21 | DNF | New Zealand | 6:18.21 | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 2 | Cole Campbell | 11:41.00 | DNF | New Zealand | 11:41.00 | DNF | DNF | |||||
3x3x3 Multi-Blind
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack McDougall | 20/22 57:01 | New Zealand | 17/20 52:18 | 20/22 57:01 | |||||||
| 2 | Tom Nelson | 17/21 41:00 | New Zealand | 18/30 1:00:00 | 17/21 41:00 | |||||||
| 3 | Cole Campbell | 18/25 57:46 | New Zealand | 19/28 1:00:02 | 18/25 57:46 | |||||||