Berkeley November Weekday 2025

Neo Cuares turned in a devastating display of rapid solving in Northern California, capturing two individual titles and a runner-up spot while logging record marks along the way. The standout performance anchored Berkeley November Weekday 2025, held on November 14, 2025, inside the Hearst Field Annex B5. Across a streamlined schedule of three events and six rounds, twenty-four competitors gathered in Berkeley, California, USA, to test their form on the official stage.

The single-day cubing competition featured intense action across the standard Rubik's Cube, the one-handed variant, and the 2x2x2 Cube. In the classic 3x3x3 Cube event, Cuares, representing the Philippines, set the standard with a 5.85 winning average and a lightning-fast best single of 5.35 seconds over two rounds. Heidi Chan of the USA followed in second place with an average of 7.81, while Anto Kam (甘浩東) of Hong Kong took third with 7.98 to complete an international podium.

The standard 3x3 results highlighted the quality of the field, but Cuares was far from finished. Moving on to 3x3x3 One-Handed, Cuares again captured the top spot with a dominant winning average of 8.66 seconds, backed by a best single of 7.03. Ethan Jan of the USA claimed the silver medal position with a 10.13 average, narrowly edging out Anto Kam (甘浩東), who posted a 10.37 mark for third. The victory gave Cuares a sweep of both three-layered puzzle categories.

The 2x2x2 Cube event brought blistering speed and a wave of record-setting solves to the tables. Ezra Severson of the USA secured the championship with a sensational winning average of 1.49 seconds, powered by a blistering best single of 0.87. Cuares earned second place with a 1.90 average, while Jan took third on 2.04. The event generated multiple official record marks, including personal record performances from Zane Qureshi with a 1.76 single and 2.34 average, Adih Datta with a 1.69 single and 2.51 average, and Ethan Jan with a 1.48 single and 2.02 average.

Further down the 2x2x2 scorecards, the record numbers continued to fall across the bracket. Neo Cuares logged a 2.92 single and 3.58 average record, Jeff Chen recorded a 3.76 single and 4.99 average, Ryan H. Lee notched a 4.18 single and 5.36 average, Christian James Del Rosario delivered a 4.58 single and 5.65 average, Diego Jiashu Jiang (蒋佳澍) produced a 3.18 single and 3.83 average, Alexander Hao-Jia Du turned in a 3.52 single and 5.86 average, and Bryce Wong achieved a 5.36 single alongside a 12.82 average.

Beyond the championship podiums, the official WCA competition served as a showcase for massive individual milestones across the field. Bryce Wong tackled three events and produced a huge breakthrough on the 2x2x2 Cube, logging a personal best single of 5.36 seconds that eclipsed a previous best of 7.41 by 27.7 percent. Christian James Del Rosario took on three events and delivered dual improvements, dropping 19.4 percent on the 2x2x2 Cube with a 4.58 mark and improving by 3.3 percent in 3x3x3 One-Handed to 21.59. Alexander Hao-Jia Du shaved 15.1 percent off previous marks with a 23.32 single in 3x3x3 One-Handed and recorded a 14.97 in 3x3x3 Cube.

Other competitors seized the opportunity to test new boundaries and climb the leaderboards. Sota Kurosaki (黒﨑創太) entered two events and registered a first ever attempt at 3x3x3 One-Handed with a successful 27.05 solve. Diego Jiashu Jiang (蒋佳澍) improved by 13.1 percent on the 2x2x2 Cube with a 3.18 personal best single while adding a 21.93 in one-handed solving. Eddy Zhao improved by 6.4 percent in the 3x3x3 Cube to finish on 30.10. James Chea excelled with a 4.94 personal best single in the 3x3x3 Cube, an improvement of 15.6 percent on the way to a fourth-place finish, while Adih Datta posted a 12.45 in one-handed solving, 19.4 percent faster than before.

The overall medal tally reflected strong international depth at Berkeley November Weekday 2025, with competitors representing the USA taking four podium finishes, the Philippines taking three, and Hong Kong earning two. As the year 2025 moves toward its final stretch, the sharp execution in speed cubing demonstrated at Hearst Field Annex B5 sets a high bar for local solvers heading into the next competitive cycle of regional speedcubing.