Their fingers were flying and the cubes were spinning at the second annual Rubik’s Rumble at Chilliwack middle school last week.
About 25 kids from throughout the school district, including private school students and homeschoolers, took part in the event which saw competitions solving two-by-two Rubik’s cubes, three-by-three cubes, and three-by-three cubes in team relays.
Miguel Rillera of Rosedale Traditional Community School was the fastest to solve the Rubik’s cube in the three-by-three competition. He took home first place with an impressive time of 10.705 seconds. The world record is 4.221 seconds by Feliks Zemdegs of Australia.
Each competition begins with a judge scrambling the cube and then placing it under an overturned box for the competitor. The box is lifted away from the cube, and the competitor then has 15 seconds to observe the cube before beginning to solve it. A special mat is used for timing the competitors. They place their hands on the small mat atop a table and the timer begins when they lift their hands to pick up the cube, and stops when they place their hands back on the mat.
Last year, the event included four-by-four and three-by-three, one-handed competitions.
Here are the results for the Chilliwack School District’s second annual Rubik’s Rumble:
Two-by-two:
First place - Leif Guiaya, A.D. Rundle - 4.692 seconds
Second place - Julin Giesbrecht, homeschool - 6.303 seconds
Third place - Miguel Rillera, Rosedale - 6.405 seconds
Three-by-three:
First place - Miguel Rillera, Rosedale - 10.705 seconds
Second place - Weiliang Shen, Chilliwack middle - 25.397 seconds
Third place - Leif Guiaya, A.D. Rundle - 27.897 seconds
Three-by-three team relay (each team had to solve six Rubik’s cubes):
First place - Khang Chien, Julin Giesbrecht, Miguel Rillera, and Leif Guiaya - 3:59.673 minutes
Second place - Nathan Grills, Liam Shepherd, Myles Thompson, Banyen Phung - 4:44.908 minutes
Third place - Seth Atkinson, Liam Vlaar, Connor Charest, Tristan Dennill - 5:02.647 minutes
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