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Negative Time Solving Contest 2026

🔗 3x3x3 Speedsolve

Rank Name Country Negative Time 🎥 ▶️ Comment
1 Matthew Liong USA -59min, 51.43sec
2 Jeremy Fleischman USA -59min, 49.22sec Hello from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Happy Halloween!
3 Knut Peterson USA -59min, 48.55sec 🎥 My warmup ao5 was sub 9, but I choked the actual solve :,( Guess it'll be an easy PR to break next year
4 Erik Cheng USA -59min, 47.41sec
5 Noah Rubenstein United States -59min, 47.08sec Pretty good solve, especially given it's 1 in the morning
6 Chris Hardwick United States -59min, 42.25sec Was hoping for faster but I am tired from setting my alarm at 1:50am. Still had a lot of fun!
7 Alejandro Buendia USA -59min, 40.05sec 🎥 my hands were so cold but not too bad of a solve, hoping to pb next year!
8 Elijah Ret USA -59min, 32.28sec 🎥 1st ever entry! Very fun :)
9 Joshua Liu USA -59min, 4.10sec Great fun. Shattered my PB too ;)
10 Lucas Garron USA -58min, 58.45sec 🎥 ▶️ Not a great solution compared to some of my warmup, but glad to still be participating!

🔗 4x4x4

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Draco Tong USA -56min, 18.44sec

🔗 5x5x5

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Draco Tong USA -53min, 11.74sec

🔗 6x6x6

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Draco Tong USA -33min, 25.92sec

🔗 7x7x7

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Draco Tong USA -24min, 26.56sec

🔗 7x7x7 Cube

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Ryan Fong United States -56min, 13.94sec

🔗 3x3x3 Blindfolded

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Draco Tong USA -50min, 33.89sec

🔗 5x5x5 Blindfolded

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Draco Tong USA -0min, 14.54sec

🔗 Clock

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Ryan Fong United States -59min, 52.48sec

🔗 Pyraminx

Rank Name Country Negative Time 🎥 Comment
1 Elijah Ret USA -59min, 54.07sec 🎥 Hopefully its fine, from a WCA-rules perspective I overinspected but I was trying to do 2 events simultaneously for my first ever entry LMAO, hope I will get grace for that lol
2 Draco Tong USA -59min, 24.18sec

🔗 Skewb

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Draco Tong USA -59min, 12.19sec
2 Sherry Tao USA -59min, 5.59sec I locked up :(((

🔗 FTO

Rank Name Country Negative Time ▶️ Comment
1 Ben Streeter United States -59min, 35.42sec ▶️

🔗 3x3x3 Multi-Blind

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Draco Tong USA -40min, 37.00sec

🔗 Petaminx

Rank Name Country Negative Time 🎥 Comment
1 John Spencer United States of America -0min, 22.58sec 🎥 Press release can be found here: https://www.bellevuecollege.edu/news/ This was an extremely ambitious project! I spent a year training for it and inventing my own method. Video is FULLY COMMENTATED with my musings, start to end (just so it's not me solving in silence with music)

🔗 Scramble for 3×3×3

The 3x3x3 scramble for 2026 is below. This is the only Negative Time Solving 3x3x3 speedsolve scramble for 2026. Do not use it before the real attempt:

🔗 Scrambles for other events

Scrambles for 2026 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.