Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
- Date
- Jul 3 - 6, 2025
- City
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Venue
Seattle Convention Center
- Address
- 705 Pike St
- Details
Arch Building
- Website
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 website
- Contact
- Organizers
- CubingUSA Treasurer, CubingUSA Worlds Organizing Team, Jacob Ambrose, James Hildreth, Kevin Hays, Kian Barry, Matthew Dickman, Michael Young, Shelley Chang, Stephen Griggs, Tim Reynolds, Vincent Sheu, Walker Welch, and Zachary Garber
- WCA Delegates
- Matthew Dickman and Tim Reynolds
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
We are excited to announce Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025! This will be the twelfth Rubik's Cube World Championship.
Please refer to the competition website, cubingusa.org/worlds, for full competition details.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitor limit
- 2000
- Number of times bookmarked
- 1339
- Registration period
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Online registration opened Friday, January 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM UTC and closed Friday, January 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM UTC.
- Registration requirements
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Create a WCA account here if you don't have one.
If this is not your first competition, associate your WCA ID to your WCA account here.
Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 2000 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $120 (United States Dollar).
The registration fee has to be paid through Stripe here once registered.
If your registration is cancelled before Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM UTC you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM UTC.
If you are a registered competitor you may change your registered events until Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM UTC on the Register tab.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
Spectators can attend paying an entry fee of $10 (United States Dollar).
Competitors may only register for events that they are already qualified for.
| Event | Round | Format | Time limit | Cutoff | Proceed | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 600 advance to next round | Average under 1:00.00 by 2025-05-20 | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 60 advance to next round | |||
| Semi Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 16 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | ||||
| 2x2x2 Cube | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 200 advance to next round | Average under 30.00 by 2025-05-20 | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | ||||
| 4x4x4 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:30.00 | 2 attempts to get < 45.00 | Top 120 advance to next round | Average under 1:00.00 by 2025-05-20 |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:30.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:30.00 | ||||
| 5x5x5 Cube | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:10.00 | Top 120 advance to next round | Average under 1:30.00 by 2025-05-20 |
| Second round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | ||||
| 6x6x6 Cube | First round | Bo1 / Mo3 | 4:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 2:15.00 | Top 120 advance to next round | Average under 2:40.00 by 2025-05-20 |
| Second round | Mo3 | 4:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Mo3 | 10:00.00 | ||||
| 7x7x7 Cube | First round | Bo1 / Mo3 | 5:00.00 | 1 attempt to get < 3:30.00 | Top 120 advance to next round | Average under 4:00.00 by 2025-05-20 |
| Second round | Mo3 | 5:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Mo3 | 10:00.00 | ||||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | First round | Bo3 | 5:00.00 cumulative* | Top 120 advance to next round | Single solve under 2:00.00 by 2025-05-20 | |
| Second round | Bo3 | 5:00.00 cumulative* | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Bo3 | 5:00.00 cumulative* | ||||
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Final | Mo3 | 1 hour | Top 50 by average by 2025-05-20 | ||
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 120 advance to next round | Average under 30.00 by 2025-05-20 | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | ||||
| Clock | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 120 advance to next round | Average under 13.00 by 2025-05-20 | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | ||||
| Megaminx | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 2:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 1:10.00 | Top 120 advance to next round | Average under 1:30.00 by 2025-05-20 |
| Second round | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 2:00.00 | ||||
| Pyraminx | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 200 advance to next round | Average under 30.00 by 2025-05-20 | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | ||||
| Skewb | First round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 200 advance to next round | Average under 30.00 by 2025-05-20 | |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | ||||
| Square-1 | First round | Bo2 / Ao5 | 1:00.00 | 2 attempts to get < 20.00 | Top 120 advance to next round | Average under 25.00 by 2025-05-20 |
| Second round | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | Top 20 advance to next round | |||
| Final | Ao5 | 1:00.00 | ||||
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 8:00.00 | Single solve under 8:00.00 by 2025-05-20 | ||
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | Final | Bo3 | 10:00.00 | Single solve under 10:00.00 by 2025-05-20 | ||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Final | Bo2 | 10:00.00 per cube, up to 60:00.00 | Top 50 by single by 2025-05-20 |
Please refer to the competition website, cubingusa.org/worlds, for full competition details, including detailed qualification info, schedules, travel, and spectator tickets.
We have reached the limit of 2000 registered competitors. Any additional competitors will be placed on the waiting list. In order to join the waiting list, you will need to pay the registration fee. The registration fee will be refunded if you are not accepted from the waiting list, or if you cancel your registration while you are still on the waiting list.
Please find the waiting list here.
Time limit
If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
Cutoff
The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).
Format
The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.
Qualification
Qualification times must be set in other WCA competitions in order to compete. Qualification times must be set on or before May 20, 2025.