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 .
- 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
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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 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 20Competitors 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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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
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 | 7.85 | 6.51 | 6.86 | 10.24 | 7.55 | |||
| 2 | Caleb Wen | 7.01 | 7.43 | United States | 9.46 | 7.51 | 7.01 | 7.65 | 7.12 | |||
| 3 | Drew Duong | 7.81 | 8.02 | United States | 8.13 | 7.99 | 7.81 | 8.72 | 7.95 | |||
4x4x4 Cube
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drew Duong | 25.41 | 28.59 | United States | 29.92 | 30.10 | 27.78 | 25.41 | 28.07 | |||
| 2 | Sanzhar Beisembayev | 30.26 | 32.62 | United States | 34.78 | 32.48 | 33.23 | 32.15 | 30.26 | |||
| 3 | Eric Wang | 26.19 | 34.97 | United States | 33.37 | 36.37 | 36.22 | 35.31 | 26.19 | |||
3x3x3 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam Chen | 16.41 | DNF | United States | DNF | 16.41 | 16.59 | |||||
| 2 | Milo Epstein | 39.81 | DNF | United States | 40.22 | DNF | 39.81 | |||||
| 3 | Rui Yang (杨睿) | 52.43 | DNF | China | 58.48 | 52.43 | DNF | |||||
3x3x3 One-Handed
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knut Peterson | 12.27 | 13.03 | United States | 13.01 | 13.07 | 12.27 | 16.78 | 13.02 | |||
| 2 | Sam Popp | 9.11 | 13.94 | United States | 13.24 | 15.06 | 17.62 | 13.51 | 9.11 | |||
| 3 | Hassan Khanani | 13.41 | 14.44 | United States | 14.15 | 15.75 | 15.37 | 13.41 | 13.81 | |||
Square-1
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hassan Khanani | 4.76 | 5.47 | United States | 8.26 | 5.60 | 5.12 | 4.76 | 5.68 | |||
| 2 | Wang Ma (马旺) | 5.37 | 7.26 | China | 7.46 | 12.10 | 5.37 | 7.85 | 6.46 | |||
| 3 | Joaquín Villablanca | 8.43 | 9.76 | Chile | 10.01 | 8.43 | 11.04 | 8.71 | 10.56 | |||
4x4x4 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rui Yang (杨睿) | 5:37.46 | DNF | China | 5:59.10 | 5:37.46 | DNF | |||||
| 2 | Jason Hammerman | 6:25.17 | DNF | United States | DNF | DNF | 6:25.17 | |||||
| 3 | Frederick Zheng | 6:37.38 | DNF | United States | 10:02.00 | DNF | 6:37.38 | |||||
5x5x5 Blindfolded
| # | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rui Yang (杨睿) | 15:12.00 | DNF | China | 17:32.00 | 15:12.00 | DNF | |||||
| 2 | Currin Wilson | 23:43.00 | DNF | United States | DNF | 23:43.00 | DNS | |||||
| 3 | Eli Rogers | 28:56.00 | DNF | United States | 28:56.00 | DNF | DNF | |||||
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 | ||||||||