White Rock's Back to Square-1 2025

Date: Jul 12, 2025
City: White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
Venue: Star of the Sea Parish Center
Address: 15262 Pacific Ave, White Rock, BC V4B 1P7, Canada
Details: Main floor hall
Contact: Organization team
Organizers: Jannik Pichler, Luke Zhang, and Speedcubing Canada
WCA Delegates: Heewon Hwang and Kevin Matthews

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Information

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Events
Main event
Competitors: 87

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Sameer Aggarwal won with an average of 4.78 seconds in the Square-1 event. Bailing Hou finished second (7.76) and Wesley Haas finished third (8.60).

3x3x3 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Sameer Aggarwal	6.39	7.08	United States	6.39	6.89	7.78	6.56	8.13
2	Ethan Rusnak	6.34	7.26	Canada	7.45	6.34	7.29	7.05	9.61
3	Kenny Zhong	7.16	7.37	Canada	7.62	7.27	9.44	7.22	7.16

2x2x2 Cube

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Dante Navarro Vera	1.41	1.75	Chile	1.52	1.41	2.12	2.93	1.60
2	Achilles Standring	1.81	2.05	Canada	1.94	3.62	2.21	1.99	1.81
3	Kevin Lê	1.64	2.07	Canada	2.12	1.64	2.16	2.69	1.92

3x3x3 One-Handed

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Ethan Rusnak	12.04	14.06	Canada	15.96	13.95	15.40	12.04	12.83
2	Noah Stelting	12.08	14.31	Canada	13.97	12.08	15.12	13.83	15.69
3	Kenny Zhong	13.19	15.23	Canada	13.52	18.00	14.18	22.23	13.19

Clock

#	Name	Best	Average		Representing	Solves
1	Alex Moscibroda	2.89	3.40		Switzerland	3.08	2.89	DNF	3.03	4.10
2	Flurin König	3.20	4.24		Switzerland	3.89	3.20	DNF	4.30	4.52
3	Dante Navarro Vera	3.61	4.25	NR	Chile	4.85	3.61	4.66	3.67	4.41

Skewb

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Kevin Lê	2.26	3.51	Canada	3.79	3.43	2.26	3.41	3.69
2	Dante Navarro Vera	2.93	3.94	Chile	5.66	4.36	4.33	3.14	2.93
3	Lukas Hörbach	3.83	4.52	Canada	6.65	3.98	3.83	4.56	5.03

Square-1

#	Name	Best	Average	Representing	Solves
1	Sameer Aggarwal	3.62	4.78	United States	4.94	3.62	5.05	4.34	5.25
2	Bailing Hou	6.43	7.76	Canada	7.95	6.91	9.52	6.43	8.43
3	Wesley Haas	7.27	8.60	Canada	8.46	7.77	9.56	7.27	9.56