Negative Time Solving Contest 2023
Congratulations to Zeke Mackay for being the first person since 2007 to win 3×3×3 in consecutive years!
🔗 3x3x3 Speedsolve
Rank
Name
Country
Negative Time
🎥
Comment
1
Zeke Mackay
USA
-59min, 53.04sec
🎥
2
Mattheo de Wit
Netherlands
-59min, 51.57sec
🎥
3
Newken Nguyen
Canada (west)
-59min, 50.75sec
🎥 my brain thought my planned cross sol was wrong but it turned out to be ok, inspecting is hard.
4
Jeremy Fleischman
USA
-59min, 50.03sec
19 years in a row!
5
Ben Whitmore
UK
-59min, 49.75sec
6
Tyler Farr
United States
-59min, 49.42sec
better than 2021 at least
7
Lucas Garron
USA
-59min, 48.17sec
8
Derek McNee
United States
-59min, 48.13sec
9
devin corr-robinett
usa
-59min, 47.35sec
broke streak because of travel last year (so had no dst) glad to get it again now
10
Chris Hardwick
United States
-59min, 46.23sec
🎥 It gets harder each contest year to wake up shortly before 2am, but is still fun to try for every
year!
11
Eris McElroy
Canada
-59min, 37.25sec
🎥 I was so nervous haha.
12
Jeff
USA
-59min, 33.80sec
I CHOKED
13
Finn McElroy
Canada (Ontario)
-59min, 17.45sec
🎥 Shakin' Like a Human Being
🔗 5x5x5
Rank
Name
Country
Negative Time
Comment
1
Erik Cheng
USA
-58min, 41.76sec
🔗 3x3x3 Blindfolded
Rank
Name
Country
Negative Time
Comment
1
Mike Hughey
United States
-58min, 19.02sec
-59min, 8.70sec memorization, 49.68sec execution
2
Draco Tong
USA
-54min, 46.14sec
🔗 4x4x4 Blindfolded
Rank
Name
Country
Negative Time
Comment
1
Draco Tong
USA
-28min, 13.47sec
🔗 Clock
Rank
Name
Country
Negative Time
Comment
1
Draco Tong
USA
-58min, 46.77sec
🔗 Square-1
Rank
Name
Country
Negative Time
Comment
1
Colin Chu
United States
-59min, 45.45sec
🔗 Nega minx*
*Note: Negaminx is just like Megaminx, but solved in negative time.
Rank
Name
Country
Negative Time
Comment
1
Sean Moran
United Kingdom
-59min, 25.55sec
2
Christopher Kilgallon
United Kingdom
-59min, 5.55sec
🔗 Gigaminx
Rank
Name
Country
Negative Time
🎥
Comment
1
John Spencer
United States of America
-34min, 40.00sec
🎥 The first "official" Gigaminx negative time solvee
🔗 Scramble for 3×3×3The 3x3x3 scramble for 2023 is below. This is the only Negative Time Solving 3x3x3 speedsolve scramble
for
2023. Do not use it before the real attempt:
🔗 Scrambles for other eventsScrambles for 2023 for all WCA events, as well as FTO, Kilominx, Master Tetraminx, and Redi Cube, are this ZIP file , and you can also view the scramble for a given event
below. For any other challenges, use your own scrambles.
Show
other scrambles
3x3x3
Blindfolded
3x3x3 Fewest Moves
3x3x3
One-Handed
2x2x2
4x4x4 Blindfolded
4x4x4
5x5x5 Blindfolded
5x5x5
6x6x6
7x7x7
Clock
Face-Turning Octahedron
Kilominx
Master
Tetraminx
Megaminx
Pyraminx
Redi Cube
Skewb
Square-1
Results
Please submit your results for 2023 using this
form and come
back after November 2023 to see everyone's results.