Negative Time Solving Contest 2024

🔗 3x3x3 Speedsolve

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	🎥	▶️	Comment
1	Louis de Mendonça	UK	-59min, 51.17sec		▶️	61 moves, absolute disaster.
2	Lucas Garron	USA	-59min, 50.03sec			Sub-10 is sub-10. 😅
3	Jeremy Fleischman	USA	-59min, 48.83sec			Hello from Wisconsin!
4	Harris Chan	Canada	-59min, 48.79sec	🎥	▶️	Locked up badly on the A perm, would have been sub -59min, 50sec! Better luck next year :P
5	Joel Kim	United States	-59min, 48.05sec			choked pretty badly, guess i'll have to try again next year then :P
6	Boakon	Germany	-59min, 41.09sec			Bad solve :(
7	Thomas Rond	USA	-59min, 40.63sec	🎥
8	Draco Tong	USA	-59min, 23.58sec

🔗 4x4x4 Blindfolded

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Draco Tong	USA	-29min, 10.62sec

🔗 5x5x5 Blindfolded

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Draco Tong	USA	-3min, 52.99sec

🔗 3x3x3 One-Handed

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	🎥	▶️	Comment
1	Knut Peterson	USA	-59min, 46.59sec	🎥	▶️	:D

🔗 Square-1

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Draco Tong	USA	-58min, 16.89sec

🔗 Face-Turning Octahedron

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	🎥	Comment
1	Chris Choi	United States	-59min, 40.26sec	🎥	really bad performance. i average 16-17 and i was doing so many solves before this to prepare and i was getting a lot of 14s and 15s. completely devestated by this
2	Dorian Chan	UK	-59min, 13.77sec	🎥

🔗 Teraminx

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	🎥	Comment
1	John Spencer	United States	-15min, 24.80sec	🎥	Unofficial negative time world record for Teraminx! :)

🔗 Scramble for 3×3×3

The 3x3x3 scramble for 2024 is below. This is the only Negative Time Solving 3x3x3 speedsolve scramble for 2024. Do not use it before the real attempt:

F2 L2 F R2 D L B2 R B' R2 U F2 D B2 D2 L2 D' L2 B2 D L2

🔗 Scrambles for other events

Scrambles for 2024 for all WCA events, as well as FTO, Kilominx, Master Tetraminx, and Redi Cube, are in this ZIP file, and you can also view the scramble for a given event below. For any other challenges, use your own scrambles.