Please Be Solved UBC 2025

Date: Nov 1, 2025
City: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Venue: University of British Columbia
Address: 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Details: Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Room 155
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Allan Wang, Isaac Davies, Speedcubing Canada, and Winston Chow
WCA Delegates: DaYeong Kim (김다영), Heewon Hwang, and Kevin Matthews

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Information

You are welcome to join the Facebook Group Rubik's Cube Solvers British Columbia. To get updates about future BC and/or Canadian competitions, join the Speedcubing Canada mailing list.

Please review all of the tabs listed on this website. This competition ONLY HAS FEWEST MOVES & BLINDFOLDED EVENTS, and is NOT A REGULAR COMPETITION.

Do note that we may run ahead of or behind schedule, particularly for events in the afternoon please be ready at least 30 minutes in advance just in case.

Notice of filming and photography:
Attendees of Speedcubing Canada competitions consent to their images being used by Speedcubing Canada and its partners in marketing materials, social media and other digital platforms.

Health and Safety:
Masks will be optional at this event. Please stay home if you are sick or feeling unwell.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 15

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
Registration requirements: This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.

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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 25 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (Canadian Dollar).
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 on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators are only permitted as companions of competitors.
Competitors may bring at most 1 guest.

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If the competitor limit has been reached and you register and pay for this competition, then you will be on the waitlist. If/when accepted competitors cancel their registrations, spots will open up for people on the waitlist and competitors will be taken in the order they initially completed registration (i.e. paid). If you are accepted from off of the waitlist, you will be notified by receiving an email saying that your registration has been accepted. If you do not make it off the waitlist, then you will be fully refunded your registration fee and, unfortunately, will not be able to compete in the competition.
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Ethan Rusnak won with a mean of 28.67 moves in the 3x3x3 Fewest Moves event. Kevin Matthews finished second (32.33) and Tonnam Tantikamnerdkul (ต้นน้ำ ตันติกำเนิดกุล) finished third (39.00).

Event	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Kevin Matthews	39.62	DNF	Canada	39.62	DNF	DNF
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Ethan Rusnak	22	28.67	Canada	22	33	31
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Kevin Matthews	4:18.31	DNF	Canada	4:18.31	DNF	DNF
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Kevin Matthews	12:18.00	DNF	Canada	DNF	12:18.00	DNF

Venue

The competition is at UBC, in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, located at 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, in room 155.

Parking

Parking information can be found here.

Public Transit

UBC is accessible by many buses and the venue is less than a 5 minute walk from the UBC bus loop/exchange. Due to construction and other unforeseen circumstances, buses may be delayed. Please check Translink's alerts and plan your trip accordingly.

Food

There are many restaurants within walking distance from the venue.

As this is a small competition with only blindfolded events, we will need everyone to help out when not competing - typically, this means you will need to judge when not competing. If you're not competing in fewest moves, then you don't need to show up/help until that is done. Likewise, if you're only competing in fewest moves then you can leave when you're done, but we'd appreciate anyone who stayed to help out with the blindfolded events.

Welcome

For those of you new to cubing - we'd like to welcome you to attend a competition, but this is probably NOT a good competition to attend. We only have blindfolded events/fewest moves, and WILL NOT HAVE 3x3x3. Please search for other BC competitions.

Regulations

Note that all competitors are expected to be familiar with the WCA Regulations.

Community

Join the Speedcubing Canada mailing list for competition announcements.
Join the BC Cubing Facebook group for BC discussion/announcements.
Join the PNW Cubing Facebook group for PNW discussion/announcements.

FAQs

Q: What will the competition look like?
A: Unlike normal competitions, this one will be small and quiet. Spectator are welcome, but will need to be quiet/undistracting the entire time.

Q: Who is allowed to compete?
A: Everyone, from all ages are allowed to compete. However, for this particular competition, you need to know how to solve a cube blindfolded, or be able to complete a fewest moves attempt (or both).

Q: How do I check the results of the competition?
A: Check out WCA Live and search for the competition name to check live results throughout the day. Official results will then be posted within a few days of the end of the competition.

Q: How do I know when I am competing?
A: Group assignments for competing and staffing will be available on Competition Groups a few days before the competition.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers (see the general info tab).

Time limit

If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced across rounds (see Regulation A1a2).

Format

The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.