Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025

Date: Jul 3 - 6, 2025
City: Seattle, Washington, United States
Venue: Seattle Convention Center
Address: 705 Pike St
Details: Arch Building
Website: Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 website
Contact: Contact form
Organizers: CubingUSA Treasurer, CubingUSA Worlds Organizing Team, Jacob Ambrose, James Hildreth, Kevin Hays, Kian Barry, Matthew Dickman, Michael Young, Shelley Chang, Stephen Griggs, Tim Reynolds, Vincent Sheu, Walker Welch, and Zachary Garber
WCA Delegates: AJ Nicholls, Alex Cohen, Alexandre Ondet, Annika Stein, Ben Royce, Brendan Bakker (貝庭笙), Carter Kucala, Chan Tak Chuen (陳德泉), Chris Martin, Damir Zhanataev, Daniel Wallin, Edward Hollingdale, Evan Liu, Fangyuan Chang (常方圆), Guido Dipietro, Jacob Ambrose, James Hildreth, Jonathan Esparaz, Jules Desjardin, Jānis Zirnis, Katie Hull, Lisa Kucala, Matthew Dickman, Michael Young, Ming Zheng (郑鸣), Oliver Hexter, Pierce Tickle, Roman Wofford, Rotem Ifrach, Rubén López de Juan, Sam Spendla, Sarah Strong, Shain Papalotl Longbehn, Shane Grogan, Shelley Chang, Simon Kelly, Simone Cantarelli, Stephen Griggs, Tim Reynolds, Tyler Williams, Walker Welch, Zachary Garber, and Zeke Mackay

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Information

We are excited to announce Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025! This will be the twelfth Rubik's Cube World Championship.

Please refer to the competition website, cubingusa.org/worlds, for full competition details.

Events
Main event
Competitors: 1864

Registration period: Online registration opened and closed .
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There is a competitor limit of 2000 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $120 (United States Dollar).
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Yiheng Wang (王艺衡) won with an average of 4.23 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Xuanyi Geng (耿暄一) finished second (4.49) and Tymon Kolasiński finished third (4.98).

World records: Tymon Kolasiński‎ 5x5x5 Cube 34.31 (average).

African records: Daniel Rush‎ 5x5x5 Cube 39.41 (single) and 7x7x7 Cube 2:12.29 (average); David Okoro-Sokoh‎ Square-1 6.60 (single) and Square-1 8.07 (average).

Oceanian records: Alexander Vujcich‎ Megaminx 27.33 (average); Michael Tripodi‎ 4x4x4 Blindfolded 1:39.39 (average).

European records: Tymon Kolasiński‎ 7x7x7 Cube 1:44.78 (average).

South American records: Theo Goluboff‎ 3x3x3 One-Handed 9.30 (average).

Event	Name	Best	Average		Representing	Solves
3x3x3 Cube	Yiheng Wang (王艺衡)	3.80	4.23		China	5.45	3.80	4.31	3.94	4.43
2x2x2 Cube	Sujan Feist	0.81	1.17		United States	0.94	1.42	1.72	0.81	1.16
4x4x4 Cube	Sebastian Weyer	18.51	20.29		Germany	20.27	20.12	28.54	20.47	18.51
5x5x5 Cube	Tymon Kolasiński	31.67	34.31	WR	Poland	36.46	36.67	31.67	33.11	33.36
6x6x6 Cube	Max Park	1:10.78	1:11.92		United States	1:13.27	1:11.71	1:10.78
7x7x7 Cube	Max Park	1:42.98	1:43.23		United States	1:43.69	1:43.02	1:42.98
3x3x3 Blindfolded	Charlie Eggins	14.43	DNF		Australia	16.62	DNF	14.43
3x3x3 Fewest Moves	Levi Gibson	20	20.33		United States	20	21	20
3x3x3 One-Handed	Neo Cuares	6.96	8.66		Philippines	6.96	8.38	8.74	8.87	10.41
Clock	Volodymyr Kapustianskyi	2.36	3.03		United States	3.37	5.71	2.36	2.69	3.02
Megaminx	Leandro Martín López	24.91	26.31		Argentina	27.85	26.27	24.91	26.05	26.61
Pyraminx	Ezra Shere	1.46	1.71		United States	1.82	3.92	1.56	1.46	1.74
Skewb	Ignacy Samselski	1.44	1.64		Poland	1.82	1.44	1.76	1.53	1.64
Square-1	Sameer Aggarwal	3.63	5.01		United States	5.69	4.83	4.82	5.38	3.63
4x4x4 Blindfolded	Stanley Chapel	59.76	1:02.32		United States	59.76	1:05.61	1:01.58
5x5x5 Blindfolded	Stanley Chapel	2:13.74	DNF		United States	DNF	DNF	2:13.74
3x3x3 Multi-Blind	Andrew Tao	52/55 59:52			United States	52/55 59:52	40/57 1:00:00

Please refer to the competition website, cubingusa.org/worlds, for full competition details, including detailed qualification info, schedules, travel, and spectator tickets.

Registration is now closed and no more competitors will be accepted from the waiting list.

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 (see Regulation A1a2).

Cutoff

The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).

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.

Qualification

Qualification times must be set in other WCA competitions in order to compete. Qualification times must be set on or before May 20, 2025.