Negative Time Solving Contest 2025

🔗 3x3x3 Speedsolve

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	🎥	▶️	Comment
1	Matthew Liong	USA	-59min, 52.30sec	🎥		Missed free pair, saved by F double sexy F' into A perm. Panicked a little because i didnt set anything up until 1:59
2	Michael Gottlieb	USA	-59min, 51.25sec			Really good for me!
3	Austin Reed	USA	-59min, 50.80sec			im so tired
4	Raymos Castillo	USA	-59min, 49.30sec
5	Lucas Garron	USA	-59min, 49.09sec	🎥	▶️
6	Jeremy Fleischman	USA	-59min, 48.33sec
7	Golubeff András	Hungary	-59min, 44.72sec	🎥		This contest is rlly cool! My solve is meh.
8	Eris McElroy	Canada	-59min, 43.21sec	🎥
9	Michael James Straughan	USA	-59min, 39.74sec			Using Roux.
10	Bernardo Cunha	Spain	-59min, 35.75sec
11	Gabriel Hatchell	USA	-59min, 31.54sec			im not too fast but I thought i would give it a try anyway, maybe faster next year!
12	Brenden McCracken	USA	-59min, 30.45sec			took me 10 secs to start the rest of my timers
13	Stella Rigoni	USA	-59min, 13.38sec
14	Twyla Renée McElroy	Canada	-59min, 10.16sec	🎥		Hats off to the Blue Jays for an excellent season and postseason. You'll get 'em next time for sure :)
15	Glenn Koster	USA	-59min, 4.50sec	🎥		This was a lot of fun!
16	Maria Barata de Tovar	Portugal	-59min, 0.00sec

🔗 2x2x2

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Draco Tong	USA	-59min, 50.76sec
2	Brenden McCracken	USA	-59min, 11.66sec

🔗 4x4x4

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Brenden McCracken	USA	-56min, 27.71sec

🔗 7x7x7

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Draco Tong	USA	-32min, 42.07sec

🔗 3x3x3 Blindfolded

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	🎥	Comment
1	Jason Hammerman	USA	-59min, 4.53sec	🎥

🔗 4x4x4 Blindfolded

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Draco Tong	USA	-26min, 31.37sec

🔗 5x5x5 Blindfolded

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Draco Tong	USA	-0min, 19.85sec

🔗 3x3x3 One-Handed

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Draco Tong	USA	-58min, 8.69sec

🔗 Clock

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Charles Bois	USA	-59min, 57.22sec
2	Brenden McCracken	USA	-58min, 54.63sec

🔗 Pyraminx

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Brenden McCracken	USA	-58min, 42.74sec

🔗 Negaminx*

*Note: Negaminx is just like Megaminx, but solved in negative time.

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Draco Tong	USA	-48min, 24.61sec

🔗 Skewb

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Brenden McCracken	USA	-58min, 30.67sec

🔗 Square-1

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	🎥	Comment
1	Joseph Ong	USA	-59min, 48.55sec	🎥	+2 out of WB
2	Brenden McCracken	USA	-57min, 44.58sec
3	Jasper	Netherlands	-44min, 30.00sec

🔗 Master Magic

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Brenden McCracken	USA	-59min, 20.36sec	would have done magic but started too late :(

🔗 FTO

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Jasper	Netherlands	-45min, 0.00sec	Four puzzles simultaneously.

🔗 Hanoiminx

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Jasper	Netherlands	-44min, 0.00sec

🔗 9x9x9 Speedsolve

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Michael Gottlieb	USA	-51min, 29.86sec

🔗 Loud Guildford*

*Guildford Challenge but excluding all quiet events.

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Amanda Schmid	USA	-41min, 52.62sec	Quite proud of myself for this, I did very well! Proud to be the first to do this!

🔗 Baby FTO

Rank	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Jasper	Netherlands	-45min, 30.00sec	Four puzzles simultaneously.

🔗 Scramble for 3×3×3

The 3x3x3 scramble for 2025 is below. This is the only Negative Time Solving 3x3x3 speedsolve scramble for 2025. Do not use it before the real attempt:

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

🔗 Scrambles for other events

Scrambles for 2025 for all WCA events, as well as FTO, Kilominx, Master Tetraminx, Redi Cube, and Baby FTO, 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.