Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025


Date
Sep 27 - 28, 2025
City
College Park, Maryland, United States
Venue

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

Address
3100 Adele H. Stamp Student Union, College Park, MD 20742
Details

Grand Ballroom

Contact
Organization team
Organizers
Adam Martinson, Frederick Zheng, and Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing
WCA Delegates
José Leonardo Chaparro Prieto, Pierce Tickle, Rich Tayag, Siddharth Suresh, and Stone Payne
Download all the competition's details as PDF here.
Information

This competition is a 2-day competition. Saturday's competition will be held in the Grand Ballroom and Sunday's competition will be held in the Prince George's Room. Both rooms are in the Stamp Student Union.

Please note, as this is a college venue, there must be parent/guardian supervision for minors during the competition.

Events
Main event
Competitors
207
Registration period

Online registration opened and closed .

Registration requirements
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Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 240 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $20 (United States Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 90% 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.

Free for UMD students, faculty, and staff. Unfortunately, we can no longer waive registration for alumni.
Please keep in mind that registrations are approved manually after payment, so your registration may not be approved immediately.
Your registration is not complete until your registration fee has been paid.
All competitiors must read the "Competitor Information" tab.
Any requested changes to registration before registration closes will be honored.

Due to space constraints in our Sunday venue, we are imposing a competitor limit on 3BLD, 4/5BLD, and Multi-Blind respectively. If any of these limits are reached before registration closes, we will keep a "waitlist" of competitors who wish to register for each of these events. The following competitor limits will apply:
- 3x3x3 Blindfolded: limit 40
- 4x4x4 Blindfolded: limit 20
- 5x5x5 Blindfolded: limit 20
- Multi-Blind: limit 20

Competitors must register for blindfolded events if they wish to compete in them or be included on the waitlist. If you do not make it off of the waitlist for one of these events, it will be removed from your registration before the competition.

Highlights
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Sam Popp won with an average of 7.42 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Caleb Wen finished second (7.43) and Drew Duong finished third (8.02).

3x3x3 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Sam Popp 6.51 7.42 United States 7.856.516.8610.247.55
2 Caleb Wen 7.01 7.43 United States 9.467.517.017.657.12
3 Drew Duong 7.81 8.02 United States 8.137.997.818.727.95

4x4x4 Cube

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Drew Duong 25.41 28.59 United States 29.9230.1027.7825.4128.07
2 Sanzhar Beisembayev 30.26 32.62 United States 34.7832.4833.2332.1530.26
3 Eric Wang 26.19 34.97 United States 33.3736.3736.2235.3126.19

3x3x3 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Liam Chen 16.41 DNF United States DNF16.4116.59
2 Milo Epstein 39.81 DNF United States 40.22DNF39.81
3 Rui Yang (杨睿) 52.43 DNF China 58.4852.43DNF

3x3x3 One-Handed

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Knut Peterson 12.27 13.03 United States 13.0113.0712.2716.7813.02
2 Sam Popp 9.11 13.94 United States 13.2415.0617.6213.519.11
3 Hassan Khanani 13.41 14.44 United States 14.1515.7515.3713.4113.81

Square-1

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Hassan Khanani 4.76 5.47 United States 8.265.605.124.765.68
2 Wang Ma (马旺) 5.37 7.26 China 7.4612.105.377.856.46
3 Joaquín Villablanca 8.43 9.76 Chile 10.018.4311.048.7110.56

4x4x4 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Rui Yang (杨睿) 5:37.46 DNF China 5:59.105:37.46DNF
2 Jason Hammerman 6:25.17 DNF United States DNFDNF6:25.17
3 Frederick Zheng 6:37.38 DNF United States 10:02.00DNF6:37.38

5x5x5 Blindfolded

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Rui Yang (杨睿) 15:12.00 DNF China 17:32.0015:12.00DNF
2 Currin Wilson 23:43.00 DNF United States DNF23:43.00DNS
3 Eli Rogers 28:56.00 DNF United States 28:56.00DNFDNF

3x3x3 Multi-Blind

# Name Best Average Representing Solves
1 Liam Chen 25/30 59:32 United States 25/30 59:32
2 Jason Hammerman 24/30 1:00:00 United States 24/30 1:00:00
3 Daniel Goodman 11/14 56:34 United States 11/14 56:34
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