Íslandsmótið í Töfrateningum 2025

Inside the halls of Menntaskolinn vid Hamrahlid, the usual ambient clicking of turning plastic briefly gave way to complete, deliberate silence. Blindfolded solving demands intense mental discipline, transforming speedcubing into an exercise of pure memory, spatial orientation, and execution without sight. Competitors sat motionless across the tables, absorbing every piece orientation before lowering their blindfolds to solve entirely from recollection. Over the weekend of August 30 to August 31, 2025, the venue hosted Islandsmotid i Tofrateningum 2025, bringing 34 competitors together across 15 events and 21 rounds in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The blindfolded categories delivered some of the most dramatic moments of the entire cubing competition. In the 3x3x3 Blindfolded event, Callum James Goodyear-Jorgensen took first place with a winning average of 1:55.84 and a best single time of 1:38.11 across four competitors. Goodyear-Jorgensen extended his memory prowess into the grueling 4x4x4 Blindfolded event, securing the title with a single solve of 9:34.40. Kasper Warberg Borg followed on the 4x4x4 Blindfolded podium, registering a completed solve of 27:13.00 in a discipline where a single lapse in memory results in an unsolved puzzle.

Goodyear-Jorgensen was not finished making his mark on the weekend, adding a victory in Megaminx with an average of 1:09.01 and a single of 1:04.99, finishing ahead of Filip Astrom who clocked 1:11.93 and Kasper Warberg Borg at 1:12.80. Meanwhile, the classic 3x3x3 Cube main event brought out 31 competitors over three rounds of intense speed cubing action. Oskar Petursson claimed victory in the final with a 9.79 winning average and a best single of 7.54. Kasper Warberg Borg took second place with an 11.01 average, while Olafur Jan Bartoszek earned third place with an 11.32 mark.

The 3x3 results formed just one part of an exceptionally productive weekend for Oskar Petursson. He swept through several major formats, winning the 4x4x4 Cube with a 34.83 average ahead of Xianhong Bao at 41.23 and Goodyear-Jorgensen at 44.95. Petursson also captured first place in Skewb with a 5.94 average, besting Kasper Warberg Borg at 6.76 and Stefan Dagur Palmason at 8.25. In 3x3x3 One-Handed, Petursson secured another gold with an average of 16.20, leaving Goodyear-Jorgensen in second with 24.21 and Borg in third with 24.55.

Away from the top steps of the podium, several competitors achieved remarkable milestones and dramatic personal improvements throughout the schedule. Einar Benediktsson cut his Rubik's Cube personal best by 52.6 percent down to 17.85 seconds, having previously stood at 37.65, while also logging his first ever official attempts in Pyraminx with an 11.84 and the 2x2x2 Cube with a 5.16. Thorsteinn Floki Einarsson made a massive leap of his own in the 3x3x3 Cube, posting a personal best of 19.08 that improved upon his previous 37.76 mark by 49.5 percent, alongside his first ever attempts in Skewb at 8.44 and the 2x2x2 Cube at 7.52.

Other competitors took on ambitious multi-event schedules and expanded into new puzzles. Bjartthor Ragnar Sigurbjornsson tackled 13 separate events, cutting his Megaminx personal best by 38.5 percent down to 1:25.71 while logging first career attempts in the 7x7x7 Cube at 7:55.00 and 6x6x6 Cube at 4:47.19. Nathan Ingi Arnberg also took on 13 events, posting first attempts in the 7x7x7 Cube at 7:19.57, 6x6x6 Cube at 4:42.38, and Clock at 13.36, while finishing fifth in 3x3x3 Fewest Moves. Birkir Orri Arason dropped his Pyraminx mark by 32.8 percent to 7.15, while Birkir Solvason improved his 3x3x3 best by 29.2 percent to 34.42. First-time WCA competition attendees also stepped up, with Hedinn Dagur Bjarnason entering five events and Solvi Hallgrimsson taking on four.

Big cube specialists found plenty of room to shine throughout the weekend as Xianhong Bao put together a dominant display across the largest puzzles. Bao took first place in the 5x5x5 Cube with an average of 1:12.23 and a best single of 1:01.80, finishing ahead of Goodyear-Jorgensen at 1:23.28 and Filip Astrom at 1:33.28. Bao carried that momentum directly into the 6x6x6 Cube, winning with an average of 2:01.70, before completing the big cube sweep by capturing the 7x7x7 Cube title with a winning average of 3:07.28.

In the side events, Kasper Warberg Borg took the top spot in the 2x2x2 Cube with a winning average of 2.69 and claimed first place in Clock with an average of 9.09. Borg also secured the 3x3x3 Fewest Moves title with a single of 37 moves. In Pyraminx, Steingrimur Ari Helgason captured victory with an average of 4.90, leading Filip Astrom at 5.66 and Oskar Petursson at 5.83. Square-1 went to Stefan Dagur Palmason, who posted a winning average of 20.78.

When the final solves concluded at Islandsmotid i Tofrateningum 2025, host nation Iceland led the overall medal table with 13 podium places, followed by the United Kingdom with 11, Denmark with 11, China with 5, and Sweden with 5. Across every division from blindfolded marathons to sprint events, the gathering in Reykjavik closed as a comprehensive display of technical speed and focus.