Riccarton Newcomer Rumble 2026
- Date
- Mar 14, 2026
- City
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Venue
Rārākau: Riccarton Centre
- Address
- Rarakau: Riccarton Centre
- Details
Main Hall
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizer
- Connor Johnson
- WCA Delegates
- Daniel Fraser and James Dyer
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Registration Is Free For All Newcomers
If this is your first WCA competition, please do not pay the registration fee and your events. We will manually approve your registration.
Riccarton Newcomer Rumble 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
- 38
- 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 45 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (New Zealand Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
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 on the Register tab.
On the spot registrations will be accepted if there are remaining spots available, with a base registration fee of $25 (New Zealand Dollar).
Newcomers Register for Free
If this is your first WCA competition, please do not pay the registration fee. We will manually approve your registration.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Jasper Murray won with an average of 6.60 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Dwyane Ramos finished second (6.62) and Connor Johnson finished third (8.28).
3x3x3 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jasper Murray | 4.85 | 6.60 | New Zealand | 5.33 | 4.85 | 6.91 | 9.18 | 7.56 | |||
| 2 | Dwyane Ramos | 5.51 | 6.62 | New Zealand | 6.42 | 6.20 | 5.51 | 7.23 | DNF | |||
| 3 | Connor Johnson | 7.35 | 8.28 | New Zealand | 8.09 | 7.35 | 8.44 | 8.91 | 8.30 | |||
2x2x2 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connor Johnson | 1.15 | 1.31 | New Zealand | 2.05 | 1.33 | 1.21 | 1.39 | 1.15 | |||
| 2 | Cooper Jones | 1.63 | 1.91 | New Zealand | 2.33 | 2.08 | 1.83 | 1.63 | 1.83 | |||
| 3 | Ryan Lau | 1.50 | 1.94 | New Zealand | 2.71 | 1.50 | 1.98 | 1.90 | 1.94 | |||
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwyane Ramos | 26.81 | 30.11 | New Zealand | 27.40 | 34.87 | 33.32 | 29.62 | 26.81 | |||
| 2 | Jasper Murray | 25.72 | 30.63 | New Zealand | DNF | 29.45 | 30.55 | 25.72 | 31.90 | |||
| 3 | Ryan Lau | 27.70 | 30.99 | New Zealand | 33.47 | 29.76 | 38.18 | 29.74 | 27.70 | |||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jasper Murray | 8.91 | 10.06 | New Zealand | 9.52 | 12.22 | 11.36 | 9.31 | 8.91 | |||
| 2 | Dwyane Ramos | 9.29 | 10.32 | New Zealand | 12.47 | 9.29 | 10.88 | 9.36 | 10.73 | |||
| 3 | Ryan Lau | 10.73 | 12.91 | New Zealand | 13.62 | 17.79 | 14.08 | 10.73 | 11.02 | |||
Pyraminx
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jasper Murray | 1.38 | 1.99 | New Zealand | 1.38 | 1.58 | 1.55 | 3.78 | 2.84 | |||
| 2 | Connor Johnson | 1.61 | 2.02 | New Zealand | 2.11 | 1.84 | 2.11 | 2.40 | 1.61 | |||
| 3 | Cooper Jones | 2.70 | 3.29 | New Zealand | 2.76 | 3.28 | 2.70 | 3.82 | 4.34 | |||
Skewb
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwyane Ramos | 2.08 | 2.56 | New Zealand | 2.88 | 2.08 | 2.34 | 3.99 | 2.47 | |||
| 2 | Connor Johnson | 2.00 | 3.32 | New Zealand | 3.47 | 2.00 | 3.01 | 3.48 | 3.58 | |||
| 3 | Daniel Fraser | 3.68 | 4.46 | New Zealand | 5.25 | 4.30 | 6.70 | 3.84 | 3.68 | |||