Solving in Sedgefield 2025

Date: Nov 1, 2025
City: Sedgefield, South Africa
Venue: Sedgefield Town Hall
Address: 18 Flamingo Avenue, Sedgefield, 6573
Details: Town hall
Contact: Organization team
Organizer: Christopher Olsen
WCA Delegates: Anthony Kalaya Rush and Daniel David Mizen

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Information

Welcome to Solving in Sedgefield 2025!

SPECTATORS
Spectators are welcome and can attend for free! Bring your family and friends to support!

VOLUNTEERING
Please note that all competitors are required to assist with volunteering during the competition - either in the role of "runner", "judge" or "scrambler". These roles will be explained as part of the "New Competitor Tutorial", but you can take a look at this video.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON VOLUNTEERING ASSIGNEMENTS
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Events
Main event
Competitors: 31

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Daniel Rush won with an average of 6.86 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Samuel Collett finished second (7.99) and Daniël Switijnk finished third (10.82).

African records: Daniel Rush‎ 4x4x4 Cube 20.69 (single).

Abbey Jones - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	14	32.15	35.62	South Africa	34.51	37.23	37.21	32.15	35.14
	First round	12	27.62	32.75	South Africa	33.65	32.76	34.47	31.83	27.62
2x2x2 Cube	Final	7	7.30	7.89	South Africa	11.05	7.30	7.46	8.65	7.55
	First round	7	5.75	7.54	South Africa	9.02	5.75	6.22	7.38	9.30

Anthony Kalaya Rush - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	15	30.08	37.19	South Africa	32.14	30.08	33.24	46.19	52.30
	First round	17	32.40	39.96	South Africa	34.65	45.97	39.25	32.40	DNF
4x4x4 Cube	Final	7	1:48.28	2:05.56	South Africa	2:11.22	2:03.36	1:48.28	2:11.22	2:02.10
Pyraminx	Final	10	11.83	16.31	South Africa	20.21	11.83	21.79	13.62	15.10
	First round	12	11.80	19.74	South Africa	11.80	18.30	25.41	15.52	26.48

Canada Ely - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	27	58.07		1:09.32		South Africa	1:23.16	1:02.10	DNF	1:02.71	58.07

Carol Rush - United Kingdom WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	29	1:01.35		1:16.05		United Kingdom	1:27.38	1:01.35	1:24.07	1:14.62	1:09.47

Caspar Switijnk - Netherlands WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	5	12.19	12.83	Netherlands	14.32	12.30	13.89	12.31	12.19
	First round	4	6.69	10.95	Netherlands	10.76	10.81	11.60	6.69	11.28
2x2x2 Cube	Final	4	2.30	3.82	Netherlands	4.31	4.32	2.30	3.74	3.42
	First round	2	2.28	2.85	Netherlands	4.20	2.28	3.51	2.64	2.39
4x4x4 Cube	Final	5	47.02	52.81	Netherlands	1:05.94	57.67	51.53	49.23	47.02
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	4	19.01	22.02	Netherlands	25.45	22.57	21.38	19.01	22.10
Megaminx	Final	5	1:33.13	1:43.48	Netherlands	1:58.62	1:47.85	1:41.90	1:40.70	1:33.13
Pyraminx	Final	1	2.59	2.88	Netherlands	4.04	2.90	3.12	2.59	2.62
	First round	1	2.88	3.16	Netherlands	3.26	2.88	3.09	3.13	4.02
Skewb	Final	6	6.22	7.44	Netherlands	6.48	7.93	10.53	6.22	7.91

Christiaan Eksteen - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	20	39.58		46.43		South Africa	52.69	45.63	50.96	39.58	42.70
	First round	18	35.07		42.01		South Africa	51.67	46.30	38.70	41.02	35.07

Christopher Olsen - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	28	1:08.30		1:13.52		South Africa	1:19.03	1:14.86	1:08.30	1:13.89	1:11.81

Damean Fredrick Pretorius - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
Pyraminx	Final	8	10.98		14.68		South Africa	14.99	11.95	17.87	10.98	17.11
	First round	9	6.75		14.09		South Africa	6.75	17.30	11.39	DNF	13.59

Daniel David Mizen - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	6	13.80	18.66	South Africa	13.80	16.48	19.51	DNF	19.99
	First round	6	13.32	14.71	South Africa	15.01	14.31	13.32	16.31	14.82
2x2x2 Cube	Final	6	2.68	5.80	South Africa	4.92	5.69	6.78	2.68	10.75
	First round	5	3.52	4.33	South Africa	3.56	3.52	3.90	6.18	5.53
4x4x4 Cube	Final	6	47.15	54.55	South Africa	55.89	1:05.78	59.91	47.15	47.86
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	6	23.45	28.12	South Africa	29.16	28.49	31.51	23.45	26.70
Megaminx	Final	4	1:29.92	1:40.54	South Africa	1:40.93	1:53.44	1:29.92	1:45.56	1:35.12
Pyraminx	Final	7	6.65	11.81	South Africa	6.65	16.52	11.56	9.68	14.19
	First round	5	6.42	8.91	South Africa	6.79	6.42	7.04	12.89	DNF
Skewb	Final	1	3.56	4.05	South Africa	3.60	4.71	3.56	12.64	3.85

Daniel Rush - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	1	6.20		6.86	South Africa	7.30	6.53	6.76	6.20	8.21
	First round	1	5.90		6.56	South Africa	6.43	5.95	7.30	5.90	7.55
2x2x2 Cube	Final	3	1.37		2.81	South Africa	4.00	1.70	2.73	4.03	1.37
	First round	1	1.86		2.02	South Africa	2.28	1.86	1.89	1.89	4.38
4x4x4 Cube	Final	1	20.69	AfR	26.50	South Africa	26.65	26.96	20.69	25.89	31.82
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	1	13.19		14.86	South Africa	15.79	16.43	13.19	14.28	14.52
Megaminx	Final	1	44.86		50.12	South Africa	49.89	44.86	52.04	48.87	51.61
Pyraminx	Final	2	3.62		4.76	South Africa	4.87	4.36	5.34	5.04	3.62
	First round	2	3.69		5.64	South Africa	3.69	4.29	6.93	5.69	7.02
Skewb	Final	5	5.36		6.52	South Africa	7.20	7.71	6.27	6.09	5.36

Daniël Switijnk - Netherlands WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	3	10.44	10.82	Netherlands	11.26	10.44	10.52	11.99	10.68
	First round	5	10.95	12.14	Netherlands	11.27	11.94	13.25	10.95	13.22
2x2x2 Cube	Final	1	1.42	1.67	Netherlands	2.45	1.65	1.61	1.74	1.42
	First round	4	1.37	3.41	Netherlands	4.38	1.37	4.06	1.79	DNF
4x4x4 Cube	Final	4	42.12	49.68	Netherlands	51.14	48.46	50.08	50.50	42.12
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	3	16.34	19.87	Netherlands	19.27	24.96	16.88	23.45	16.34
Megaminx	Final	3	1:05.33	1:21.98	Netherlands	1:18.56	1:22.24	1:25.15	1:31.65	1:05.33
Pyraminx	Final	4	5.97	8.97	Netherlands	7.88	5.97	9.49	14.04	9.54
	First round	4	5.66	7.47	Netherlands	10.85	5.66	6.30	9.25	6.86
Skewb	Final	3	5.35	6.23	Netherlands	7.25	5.85	5.35	7.03	5.82

Du Toit Burger - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	13	26.49	35.07	South Africa	30.83	26.49	37.72	1:01.74	36.66
	First round	11	30.23	32.17	South Africa	34.46	32.41	32.69	30.23	31.42
2x2x2 Cube	Final	10	5.65	8.81	South Africa	9.38	10.72	8.57	8.47	5.65
	First round	10	8.52	9.95	South Africa	11.11	8.52	9.90	33.77	8.84

Eldu Strauss - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	21	43.95	52.87	South Africa	49.21	58.95	43.95	55.43	53.98
	First round	20	33.81	43.77	South Africa	52.91	43.29	47.01	41.01	33.81
2x2x2 Cube	First round	18	21.87	34.51	South Africa	29.20	21.87	2:30.86	22.05	52.29
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	9	1:49.00	2:00.90	South Africa	DNF	2:15.86	1:55.71	1:49.00	1:51.13
Pyraminx	Final	13	16.11	26.64	South Africa	30.53	19.96	29.42	30.68	16.11
	First round	13	17.57	21.24	South Africa	18.65	22.94	17.57	22.12	32.15

Eliam Nel - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	16	30.40	38.64	South Africa	39.86	DNF	30.40	37.26	38.80
	First round	15	33.69	38.32	South Africa	47.01	33.69	34.34	37.22	43.40
2x2x2 Cube	First round	16	9.64	14.92	South Africa	10.32	9.64	20.53	DNF	13.91
4x4x4 Cube	Final	11	2:54.62	3:19.88	South Africa	2:54.62	2:57.37	3:31.43	4:24.56	3:30.84
Pyraminx	First round	14	14.43	21.81	South Africa	21.01	DNF	14.43	17.62	26.80

Ethan Bauer - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	12	25.44	32.84	South Africa	34.64	32.22	31.66	25.44	34.89
	First round	21	35.01	44.68	South Africa	40.18	49.88	43.97	53.35	35.01
2x2x2 Cube	Final	12	5.35	10.39	South Africa	12.24	11.22	9.68	10.28	5.35
	First round	12	10.12	12.74	South Africa	13.28	10.12	11.20	13.75	14.04
4x4x4 Cube	Final	10	2:38.76	2:59.36	South Africa	3:05.59	2:55.26	2:59.26	2:38.76	3:03.55
Pyraminx	Final	11	9.01	18.85	South Africa	20.16	9.01	18.50	18.17	19.88
	First round	8	8.68	11.95	South Africa	13.95	11.46	8.68	14.64	10.45

Ethan van der Linde - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	10	23.36	28.38	South Africa	29.40	23.36	27.66	28.07	30.35
	First round	9	23.57	29.08	South Africa	23.57	34.64	25.99	26.60	34.76
2x2x2 Cube	Final	8	6.98	8.31	South Africa	8.19	DNF	6.98	9.19	7.54
	First round	8	5.58	7.68	South Africa	5.58	6.48	9.61	7.66	8.89
4x4x4 Cube	Final	9	2:16.82	2:54.86	South Africa	2:16.82	DNF	2:26.79	3:19.17	2:58.62
Pyraminx	Final	5	6.80	10.54	South Africa	10.71	6.80	12.03	11.04	9.86
	First round	7	9.26	11.41	South Africa	10.18	DNF	12.36	11.68	9.26

Ewan Paul Gyselman - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	23	38.00		47.42		South Africa	55.28	46.94	38.00	50.61	44.71

Ezekiel Olsen - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	11	25.58	29.35	South Africa	29.30	30.50	28.26	25.58	36.73
	First round	10	30.54	30.89	South Africa	30.54	30.81	33.94	31.04	30.82
2x2x2 Cube	Final	13	10.88	12.77	South Africa	12.66	11.52	10.88	23.47	14.13
	First round	15	10.41	14.42	South Africa	12.85	16.68	10.41	13.73	20.33
4x4x4 Cube	Final	8	1:57.12	2:37.44	South Africa	2:59.04	2:25.68	2:54.64	2:31.99	1:57.12
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	8	1:10.93	1:45.57	South Africa	2:05.73	1:10.93	1:18.26	1:54.01	2:04.44
Megaminx	Final	7	5:49.02		South Africa	DNF	5:49.02
Pyraminx	Final	9	11.34	15.20	South Africa	20.85	11.34	14.94	12.03	18.63
	First round	10	13.69	15.34	South Africa	13.69	19.10	18.02	14.24	13.76

Jaden Bauer - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	24	46.80	59.94	South Africa	1:01.90	47.96	46.80	1:09.96	DNF
2x2x2 Cube	First round	17	15.47	17.89	South Africa	28.60	17.40	15.47	18.93	17.34
Pyraminx	Final	12	18.88	21.07	South Africa	19.18	18.88	31.20	22.03	22.00
	First round	11	13.01	19.65	South Africa	17.10	19.10	22.76	22.76	13.01

Joshua Cassiem - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	7	17.72		21.54		South Africa	17.72	22.34	23.19	20.62	21.65
	First round	7	21.87		23.58		South Africa	23.08	21.87	31.30	21.91	25.76

Joshua Poulton - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	14	25.08		33.90		South Africa	39.18	25.08	32.80	29.71	44.32

Kellan John Broderick - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	18	34.81	42.36	South Africa	39.07	40.36	34.81	47.71	47.66
	First round	16	32.47	38.49	South Africa	52.30	38.15	36.31	32.47	41.00
2x2x2 Cube	Final	15	9.58	14.43	South Africa	16.50	39.95	9.58	15.76	11.03
	First round	13	11.98	14.13	South Africa	13.33	14.57	14.49	26.12	11.98
Pyraminx	First round	18	17.29	30.58	South Africa	22.15	42.59	1:27.38	26.99	17.29
Skewb	Final	7	14.66	22.89	South Africa	29.40	18.13	14.66	21.15	DNF

Lior Nel - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	9	24.50	27.45	South Africa	31.69	25.22	29.77	27.36	24.50
	First round	8	25.13	26.37	South Africa	27.48	25.13	26.51	25.13	30.80
2x2x2 Cube	Final	11	5.42	9.64	South Africa	11.78	11.72	12.10	5.42	5.43
	First round	11	7.55	11.60	South Africa	12.11	10.99	7.55	14.62	11.69
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	7	52.84	1:01.75	South Africa	1:12.57	1:04.57	56.85	52.84	1:03.82
Pyraminx	First round	17	17.70	26.97	South Africa	44.42	20.05	17.70	33.66	27.20

Michael Slade Joubert - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	17	36.24	41.27	South Africa	36.24	44.17	40.29	DNF	39.35
	First round	19	34.92	42.12	South Africa	47.04	35.75	34.92	1:06.89	43.57
2x2x2 Cube	Final	14	9.87	13.90	South Africa	13.35	17.71	16.19	9.87	12.15
	First round	14	10.96	14.31	South Africa	14.99	10.96	15.16	13.95	13.98
4x4x4 Cube	Final	12	2:33.93	3:24.29	South Africa	2:33.93	3:33.18	4:02.14	3:13.31	3:26.38
Pyraminx	First round	15	18.37	22.36	South Africa	21.64	18.37	22.88	22.55	28.97

Miga Ferreira - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	4	9.73	10.84	South Africa	10.81	13.54	11.97	9.73	9.74
	First round	3	8.33	10.48	South Africa	11.17	10.93	9.79	8.33	10.71
2x2x2 Cube	Final	5	2.89	4.51	South Africa	4.60	DNF	4.36	2.89	4.56
	First round	6	2.77	4.43	South Africa	4.09	3.42	5.96	2.77	5.78
4x4x4 Cube	Final	3	38.42	46.90	South Africa	46.47	51.32	43.31	50.93	38.42
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	5	19.18	23.92	South Africa	22.44	23.26	26.07	19.18	28.97
Megaminx	Final	6	1:56.15	2:13.05	South Africa	2:30.29	2:19.42	2:17.27	1:56.15	2:02.46
Pyraminx	Final	6	9.44	11.30	South Africa	10.12	9.44	10.41	13.36	14.53
	First round	6	5.97	9.83	South Africa	5.97	7.30	15.50	6.84	15.34
Skewb	Final	4	4.34	6.49	South Africa	6.34	4.34	7.08	6.52	6.62

Otto Hong-en Muller - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	19	41.01		43.44		South Africa	51.71	41.29	45.69	43.35	41.01
	First round	22	32.39		45.79		South Africa	DNF	32.39	43.00	42.70	51.68

Raphael Crous - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	8	22.98	27.00	South Africa	31.36	27.72	26.86	22.98	26.43
	First round	13	25.31	33.43	South Africa	42.84	30.32	39.30	30.68	25.31
2x2x2 Cube	Final	9	7.15	8.64	South Africa	7.15	9.05	8.52	8.49	8.91
	First round	9	6.49	9.56	South Africa	9.96	12.19	6.49	12.16	6.56

Ryan Bauer - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	30	1:14.75		DNF		South Africa	DNF	1:14.75	1:15.28	DNF	1:36.49
Pyraminx	First round	16	16.22		26.65		South Africa	30.12	22.89	26.95	16.22	31.29

Samuel Collett - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Final	2	7.24	7.99	South Africa	7.24	8.52	7.60	7.85	8.52
	First round	2	9.45	10.10	South Africa	11.35	9.45	9.77	10.50	10.02
2x2x2 Cube	Final	2	1.87	2.70	South Africa	2.32	3.52	1.87	3.52	2.27
	First round	3	2.48	3.35	South Africa	2.48	2.76	3.16	5.19	4.14
4x4x4 Cube	Final	2	27.90	34.64	South Africa	33.58	27.90	34.25	40.46	36.08
3x3x3 One-Handed	Final	2	14.07	17.98	South Africa	19.72	18.07	18.42	14.07	17.45
Megaminx	Final	2	57.02	1:07.00	South Africa	1:10.36	1:07.44	57.02	1:03.20	1:10.90
Pyraminx	Final	3	6.11	7.18	South Africa	6.32	6.11	6.96	8.25	10.78
	First round	3	4.39	6.92	South Africa	7.33	7.00	6.58	4.39	7.18
Skewb	Final	2	3.33	4.49	South Africa	5.13	3.33	6.02	4.64	3.70

Tiaan Nel - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	25	57.31		1:02.10		South Africa	1:07.07	57.31	1:10.94	57.50	1:01.72
2x2x2 Cube	First round	19	13.93		34.92		South Africa	DNF	17.97	38.12	13.93	48.68

Tyron Rumbelow - South Africa WCA profile

Event	Round	#	Best		Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	First round	26	54.46		1:04.91		South Africa	56.83	1:11.50	1:06.41	1:15.66	54.46
2x2x2 Cube	First round	20	35.62		39.90		South Africa	37.98	36.82	35.62	52.01	44.90