1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship

The 1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship was a competition for speedsolving the 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube. It was held in Budapest, Hungary. Minh Thai from the United States of America was the winner with a best time of 22.95 after three attempts for each contestant. The top attempt of three was taken as the competitor's score. It had many differences to all future official competitions.

Results

Place[1] Name Time Status Country Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Attempt 3
1 Minh Thai 22.95 WR USA 27.16 22.95 27.97
2 Guus Razoux Schultz 24.32 ER Netherlands 24.32 31.51 26.51
3 Zoltán Lábas 24.49 NR Hungary 24.49 27.58 28.21
4 Lars Petrus 24.57 NR Sweden 35.42 33.11 24.57
5 Ken'ichi Ueno 24.91 AsR Japan 27.56 27.90 24.91
6 Jerome Jean-Charles 25.06 NR France 27.87 31.18 25.06
7 Julian Chilvers 25.95 NR United Kingdom 30.59 25.95 27.46
8 Duc Trinh 26.63 NR Canada 37.44 26.63 36.09
9 Giuseppe Romeo 28.11 NR Italy 34.23 41.75 28.11
10 Jessica Fridrich 29.11 NR Czech Republic 31.49 29.11 33.20
11 Eduardo Valdivia Chacon 29.62 SAR Peru 34.91 29.62 30.01
12 Luc Van Laethem 29.73 NR Belgium 32.92 34.98 29.73
13 József Borsos 30.02 NR Yugoslavia 36.75 35.33 30.02
14 Roland Brinkmann 30.59 NR Germany 34.80 30.59 32.52
15 Jari Sandqvist 31.17 NR Finland 31.17 DNF* 31.56
16 Manuel Galrinho 37.11 NR Portugal 40.74 48.67 37.11
17 Piotr Sebenski 37.50 NR Poland 44.40 37.50 40.86
18 Svilen Tenev 47.29 NR Bulgaria 51.88 47.29 47.35
19 Josef Trajber 50.16 NR Austria 50.16 54.93 58.99

WR = World Record

ER = European Record

AsR = Asian Record

SAR = South American Record

NR = National Record

References

  1. ↑ http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?allResults=All+Results&competitionId=WC1982
  2. ↑ http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/cubewrld.html