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.

1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship
Tournament information
SportSpeedcubing
LocationBudapest, Hungary
Dates5 June 1982–5 June 1982
Teams19
Final champion
Minh Thai

It was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 June 1982.[1] Contestants selected from 19 countries took part.[1] 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.[2] First prize was a gold-plated Rubik's Cube.[1]

Writing shortly afterwards, David Singmaster who was one of the judges, described the competition as being efficiently organized, although at one point power for the TV and the display timer failed in the middle of a trial.[3] The cubes were selected by Ernő Rubik himself, and according to Singmaster "competitors described them as pretty good".[3] However, writing around 20 years later, Jessica Fridrich who had participated in the contest, criticised the cubes for being "really hard to turn and were not prepared for serious speed cubing".[4]

This competition was the first officially recognised competition of its kind. The next competition was held in 2003 in Canada, with many differences to the competition structure and many other puzzles being added other than the Rubik's Cube.[5]

Results

The results were:[3]

Place Name Time Status Country Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Attempt 3
1Minh Thai22.95WR USA27.1622.9527.97
2Guus Razoux Schultz24.32ER Netherlands24.3231.5126.51
3Zoltán Lábas24.49NR Hungary24.4927.5828.21
4Lars Petrus24.57NR Sweden35.4233.1124.57
5Ken'ichi Ueno (上野健一)24.91AsR Japan27.5627.9024.91
6Jérôme Jean-Charles25.06NR France27.8731.1825.06
7Julian Chilvers25.95NR United Kingdom30.5925.9527.46
8Duc Trinh26.63NR Canada37.4426.6336.09
9Giuseppe Romeo28.11NR Italy34.2341.7528.11
10Jessica Fridrich29.11NR Czech Republic31.4929.1133.20
11Eduardo Valdivia Chacón29.62SAR Peru34.9129.6230.01
12Luc Van Laethem29.73NR Belgium32.9234.9829.73
13József Borsos30.02NR Yugoslavia36.7535.3330.02
14Ronald Brinkmann30.59NR Germany34.8030.5932.52
15Jari Sandqvist31.17NR Finland31.17DNF*31.56
16Manuel Galrinho37.11NR Portugal40.7448.6737.11
17Piotr Serbeński37.50NR Poland44.4037.5040.86
18Svilen Tenev47.29NR Bulgaria51.8847.2947.35
19Josef Trajber50.16NR Austria50.1654.9358.99

WR = World Record

ER = European Record

AsR = Asian Record

SAR = South American Record

NR = National Record

  • Sandqivst's second attempt was disqualified since his cube was broken twice in the same attempt. This was a violation of the competition rules and the attempt was stopped at that point.[4]
gollark: Not as far as I know.
gollark: It doesnt' do markdown.
gollark: No, Minoteaur's is best, since it lets you have self replicators.
gollark: The only canonical implementation is Minoteaur's, of course.
gollark: > but it has some useful bits

References
  1. Joan Hanauer (26 May 1982). "Cube Contest". United Press International.
  2. "World Rubik's Cube Championship 1982 | World Cube Association". www.worldcubeassociation.org. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  3. David Singmaster (1982). "Cubic Circular Issues 3 & 4".
  4. Jessica Fridrich (2003). "The World Championship, Budapest 1982".
  5. "World Rubik's Games Championship 2003 | World Cube Association". www.worldcubeassociation.org. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
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