Megaminx in Mordialloc 2025

Inside Allan McLean Hall, the tables stood prepped for a dense day of focused puzzle solving as the morning session got underway. Competitors unpacked timers, lubricated mechanisms, and ran through their familiar inspection habits across the staging area. The atmosphere carried the usual hum of high-tempo solving, with 42 competitors gathered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia for a compact single-day tournament. Megaminx in Mordialloc 2025 offered four specialized disciplines across nine tightly scheduled rounds on September 13, 2025.

The morning schedule opened with early heats that quickly showed how competitive the day would become. Participants tackled the initial rounds of multi-faceted challenges, turning the focus from classic Rubik's Cube speedcubing toward complex specialty puzzles. A busy crowd moved through the venue as runners transferred scrambled cubes to timing stations, and the pace never slacked across 35 competitors in the dodecahedral headline discipline and 38 entrants handling single-handed 3x3 solves.

As midday arrived, the title discipline took over center stage with three full rounds of Megaminx action. Firstian Fushada delivered an outstanding performance to claim the championship with a winning average of 35.58 seconds, backed by the day's best single solve of 30.87 seconds. Australia's Roman Rudakov pushed hard to take the second spot on the podium with a 36.98 average, while Malaysia's Chong Hau Han secured third place with a mark of 43.40 seconds.

The afternoon shifted attention to the clock face and asymmetrical turning events. In Clock, Zayd Chaudhry topped a field of 35 competitors with a winning average of 5.11 seconds and a rapid best single of 4.31 seconds. Firstian Fushada took his second podium of the day with a second-place average of 5.27 seconds, closely followed by Lucas Dinh in third at 5.48 seconds. Megaminx in Mordialloc 2025 continued without pause into the technical challenges of Square-1, where David Epstein won with a 5.28 average and a 4.79 single, ahead of Fushada's 8.15 and Phoenix Patterson's 8.91.

Away from the top steps of the podium, several competitors achieved remarkable milestones across their events. Jasper Warner produced major breakthroughs across four disciplines, shaving 30.3 percent off their Square-1 personal best with a time of 26.88 seconds, cutting 25 percent in Megaminx down to 1:21.14, and clocking 9.06 in Clock. Nicholas Allen Crow lowered their Megaminx mark by 24.8 percent to 2:13.03 and trimmed their Clock best to 12.36. Phoenix Pham reduced their Clock personal best by 25.4 percent to 12.13, while Stan Wilson posted a 21 percent improvement in Clock with 14.77 and recorded a first ever attempt at Megaminx in 1:55.03.

The depth of progress at this WCA competition extended across many first-time event entries. Lincoln Luo tackled four events, recording first ever attempts in Clock at 15.74, Megaminx at 2:22.01, and 3x3x3 One-Handed at 18.31. John H. Lee achieved a best finish of 4th in Clock while making first ever attempts at Megaminx in 58.19, Clock in 4.20, and 3x3x3 One-Handed in 16.07. Kaisuke Satoyoshi registered first attempts in Megaminx at 52.29, Clock at 8.54, and Square-1 at 27.33, while Andreas Lukic recorded first attempts in Clock at 11.17, One-Handed at 48.89, and Megaminx at 2:06.38.

As the afternoon progressed toward the final rounds, 3x3x3 One-Handed brought intense closing battles and impressive speed cubing form. Riley Dexter captured the title with a winning average of 11.08 seconds in the final round, featuring a best single of 10.19 seconds. Firstian Fushada earned another silver placement with an average of 11.82, while David Epstein rounded out the top three with an average of 13.20. The single-handed 3x3 results across the rounds saw Australia capture seven total podium spots throughout the gathering, with Indonesia earning four and Malaysia one.

By the time the final scoresheets were signed and verified, Megaminx in Mordialloc 2025 had packed extensive competition into its single-day program. Competitors traded tips, packed up their cubes, and reviewed the official postings from Allan McLean Hall. The 2025 cubing competition schedule in Victoria proved once again that dedicated regional events bring out sharp competition and personal breakthroughs in equal measure.