Please Be Quiet Auckland 2025
- Date
- Sep 21, 2025
- City
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Venue
1st Mount Albert St Jude's Scout Hall
- Address
- 1213A New North Road
- Details
Scout Hall
- Website
- Please Be Quiet Auckland 2025 website
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Caleb Hall
- WCA Delegates
- Caleb Hall and Nick Ng
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Please Be Quiet Auckland 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.

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- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 10
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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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 30 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (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.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Xavier Courteau-Laing won with a single solve of 51.93 seconds in the 3x3x3 Blindfolded event. Kate Grahame finished second (58.15) and Caleb Hall finished third (1:27.23).
Aneurin Hunt - New Zealand WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | 5 | DNF | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | 1 | 26 | 28.00 | New Zealand | 26 | 29 | 29 | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | 2 | DNF | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | 2 | DNF | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | 2 | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | |||||||
Caleb Hall - New Zealand WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 3 | 1:27.23 | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | 1:27.23 | |||||
| First round | 3 | 1:33.35 | 1:43.65 | New Zealand | 1:35.52 | 2:02.08 | 1:33.35 | ||||||
Ethan Ruoqing Chen (陈若轻) - New Zealand WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | 5 | DNF | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | 6 | 34 | DNF | New Zealand | 34 | 45 | DNF | |||||
Kate Grahame - United States WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 2 | 58.15 | DNF | United States | 1:32.68 | DNF | 58.15 | |||||
| First round | 2 | 54.40 | 1:27.22 | United States | 1:46.92 | 1:40.34 | 54.40 | ||||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | 7 | 37 | DNF | United States | 37 | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | 1 | 8:08.22 | DNF | United States | DNF | 8:08.22 | DNF | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | 1 | 16:10.00 | DNF | United States | 18:36.00 | 16:10.00 | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | 1 | 9/10 40:56 | United States | 10/14 59:08 | 9/10 40:56 | |||||||
Nick Ng - New Zealand WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 4 | 3:39.41 | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | 3:39.41 | DNF | |||||
| First round | 4 | 2:45.61 | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | 2:45.61 | ||||||
Ram Thakkar (राम ठक्कर) - India WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | 3 | 34 | 36.00 | India | 36 | 38 | 34 | |||||
Saarthak Negi - India WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | 5 | DNF | DNF | India | DNF | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | 5 | 34 | 39.33 | India | 34 | 40 | 44 | |||||
Thomas Swarbrick - New Zealand WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | 5 | DNF | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | 4 | 31 | 38.00 | New Zealand | 41 | 42 | 31 | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | 2 | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | |||||||
Xavier Courteau-Laing - New Zealand WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Final | 1 | 51.93 | 1:03.59 | New Zealand | 1:19.17 | 59.67 | 51.93 | |||||
| First round | 1 | 46.38 | DNF | New Zealand | 50.48 | DNF | 46.38 | ||||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | 2 | 31 | 35.67 | New Zealand | 31 | 36 | 40 | |||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | 2 | DNF | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | 2 | DNF | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | DNS | |||||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | 2 | DNF | New Zealand | DNF | DNF | |||||||
Yi-Fan Wu (吳亦凡) - Chinese Taipei WCA profile
| Event | Round | # | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | 8 | 39 | DNF | Chinese Taipei | 39 | DNS | DNS | |||||