Negative Time Solving Contest 2026
🔗 3x3x3 Speedsolve
Rank
Name
Country
Negative Time
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▶️
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
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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
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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
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▶️
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
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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
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🔗 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
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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.
Show
other scrambles
2x2x2 Cube
3x3x3
Cube
4x4x4 Cube
5x5x5 Cube
6x6x6 Cube
7x7x7 Cube
3x3x3
Blindfolded
3x3x3
Fewest Moves
3x3x3
One-Handed
Clock
Megaminx
Pyraminx
Skewb
Square-1
4x4x4 Blindfolded
5x5x5 Blindfolded
Face-Turning Octahedron
Master
Tetraminx
Kilominx
Redi
Cube
Baby FTO