Minnesota Quiet Championship 2025

Seventeen competitors gathered on November 22, 2025, transforming the New Brighton Community Center into a focused arena of silent concentration. Hosted in New Brighton, Minnesota, USA, the venue offered the ideal setting for specialized disciplines that demand deep stillness and total focus. Across six rounds and five distinct events, the competition hall remained hushed as solvers tackled memory-intensive formats. This dedicated cubing competition brought together solvers eager to test their mental endurance across classic blindfolded challenges and meticulous move-count optimization.

The Minnesota Quiet Championship 2025 presented a unique atmosphere where standard speed cubing racing yielded to intense internal calculations. Speedcubing in this setting requires absolute quiet, allowing competitors to inspect, memorize, and execute without auditory distractions. With five events spanning single and multi-cube memory challenges alongside spatial analysis, every competitor at the New Brighton venue had to rely entirely on memorization sequences and spatial foresight throughout the rigorous single-day schedule.

Thomas Reinke delivered a dominant series of performances across the blindfolded categories, capturing titles in two of the most demanding events on the roster. In 3x3x3 Multi-Blind, Reinke took first place by successfully resolving 28 of 33 cubes in a time of 59:05. Walker Welch secured the runner-up position with a clean 11 out of 11 in 57:12, while Andrew Surine completed the podium in third place with 11 of 13 solved in 56:12. The event highlighted the extraordinary mental stamina required to store dozens of cube layouts simultaneously.

Reinke continued his strong run in 4x4x4 Blindfolded, winning the event with a single time of 3:42.82. Andy Wong kept the contest remarkably tight, claiming second place just seconds behind with a time of 3:49.62, while Kaius Young took third place with a time of 6:59.91. Managing the inner slices and parity cases of the larger Rubik's Cube without sight proved to be one of the day's toughest tests inside the quiet competition hall.

Andy Wong earned top honors in 3x3x3 Blindfolded, topping a field of 13 competitors across two rounds. Wong registered a winning single of 20.28 seconds in the final round to lead the standings. Thomas Reinke finished in second place with a time of 42.88 seconds, and Ivan ThanhDanh Duong earned third place with a single of 47.61 seconds. Tracking standard 3x3 results in the blindfolded format highlighted the blistering pace achievable even when relying entirely on memorization.

Wong also claimed victory in 5x5x5 Blindfolded, posting a winning average of 9:22.39 alongside a best single of 7:38.33. Thomas Reinke took the second step on the podium with a single of 8:26.26, and Walker Welch finished third with a solve of 22:13.00. In 3x3x3 Fewest Moves, Evan Brown secured the title with an average of 21.67 moves, supported by a best single solution of 20 moves. Walker Welch followed in second with a 26.00 average, and Andy Wong finished third with 31.67.

Beyond the podium finishes, the Minnesota Quiet Championship 2025 served as a proving ground for competitors pushing their personal limits and taking on new events. Nathan A. Hetzel logged an 18.1 percent improvement in 3x3x3 Blindfolded with a personal best of 2:10.85 compared to an earlier mark of 2:39.85, while also taking his first ever attempt at 3x3x3 Multi-Blind to finish sixth with 4 of 6 cubes in 45:01. Davy Burson improved his 3x3x3 Blindfolded best by 8.8 percent down to 8:24.24 and placed ninth in Multi-Blind across his two events. Liam Sheldon dropped his 3x3x3 Fewest Moves personal best by 4.9 percent to 39 moves to finish fourth, while Nolan Wayman tackled five events and recorded his first ever attempt at 4x4x4 Blindfolded in 10:41.00.

Other dedicated solvers marked solid milestones during their weekend at the boards. Ben Fraher contested two events and earned a fifth-place finish in 3x3x3 Fewest Moves, while Lisa Kucala focused on Fewest Moves to capture sixth place. Stephen Burson took on three events and secured a best finish of sixth place in 4x4x4 Blindfolded. Bennett Rule completed two events on the day, highlighted by an eighth-place finish in Fewest Moves. Kristin Knowles also took to the tables for Fewest Moves, finishing ninth in the competitive field.

With all fifteen podium placements earned by competitors representing the United States, the single-day WCA competition closed on a high note in New Brighton. The calm venue offered a distinctive, serene stage for competitors to push the boundaries of spatial reasoning and memory. As the year 2025 comes toward a close, the achievements recorded at the tables will serve as valuable benchmarks heading into the next competitive season.