Please Be Finished Brisbane 2025

Inside The Brisbane Finnish Hall, the atmosphere carried a distinct stillness reserved for the quietest discipline in speedcubing. Forty-seven competitors gathered in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia over the August 30–31 weekend for Please Be Finished Brisbane 2025, taking on a program packed with demanding events. Blindfolded solving requires immense memorisation, precise spatial tracking, and total mental discipline, as solvers inspect the puzzle, place a blindfold over their eyes, and execute their planned solutions entirely from memory. Across 16 rounds of competition, the hall shifted between deep silence and steady mechanical turns.

Charlie Eggins delivered a sensational blindfolded showcase across the schedule. In 3x3x3 Blindfolded, which drew 24 competitors across three rounds, Eggins captured the title with a swift single of 16.58 seconds, leading Australia teammate Bpaul Paul at 20.10 and Joseph Burnett at 40.63. While standard 3x3 results often capture attention in a typical cubing competition, the blindfolded division here commanded the room. Eggins continued his sweep into the larger blindfolded puzzles, securing the 4x4x4 Blindfolded victory with a 2:53.00 winning average and a top single of 2:24.04, then claiming 5x5x5 Blindfolded with a 7:27.09 single.

The 3x3x3 Multi-Blind event brought its own test of stamina and memory to the tables. Joseph Burnett claimed the top step of the podium by successfully solving 21 out of 23 cubes within 55:32. Eggins finished second with 15 out of 21 cubes in 49:35, while Haruka Kitamura of Japan earned third with 14 out of 21 in exactly 1:00:00. In 5x5x5 Blindfolded, Kitamura took second place behind Eggins with a time of 9:32.39, while Burnett secured third place with 11:11.00, underscoring the fierce concentration required in the long-form blind events.

Beyond the blindfolded feats, Hayden Ng put together a dominant run across the traditional big cubes and specialty events. Ng took first place in the 5x5x5 Cube, finishing with an average of 49.26 seconds and a best single of 44.84, ahead of Jamie Otsu at 58.87 and Joseph Burnett at 58.96. In the 6x6x6 Cube, Ng posted a 1:35.96 winning average to lead Otsu at 1:45.24 and Burnett at 1:46.68. Ng also claimed the 7x7x7 Cube with a 2:21.21 average, where Burnett finished second in 2:33.00 and Otsu third in 2:52.16.

Ng rounded out his four-event victory tally by taking top honours in Square-1, recording an average of 7.54 seconds with a 6.30 single. Benjamin Warry took second place with 8.85 and Vaibhav-Jai Ravipati placed third in 13.32. In Megaminx, Masayuki Hirai of Japan triumphed over a 42-competitor field with an average of 35.60 seconds and a single of 32.52. Otsu secured second with a 37.32 average, and Avery Graham took third with 44.67. Throughout the nine events of this WCA competition, Australian competitors collected 23 podium places while Japanese solvers claimed four.

Away from the podiums, several competitors logged significant personal breakthroughs. Thomas Strenzel recorded a Megaminx personal best of 1:02.88, cutting his previous mark by 54.7 percent, alongside a 17.2 percent improvement on 5x5x5 Cube to 1:35.23 and a first ever attempt at 7x7x7 Cube of 5:10.69. Nate Garthon tackled nine events, earning a 53 percent personal best in 4x4x4 Blindfolded at 8:36.60, a 33.7 percent personal best in 3x3x3 Blindfolded at 1:06.79, and a first ever attempt at 5x5x5 Blindfolded in 24:53.00. Ruairi Moloney registered a 41.8 percent personal best in 6x6x6 Cube at 2:43.81, improved his Square-1 best by 36.6 percent to 23.21, and completed his first ever Megaminx attempt in 1:26.81. Nadia Hou dropped 36.2 percent off her Megaminx personal best down to 1:26.16 and improved her 5x5x5 Cube time by 10.3 percent to 2:30.36.

The progress continued across all corners of the venue as solvers expanded their competitive repertoires. Lucas Bohorquez Bohn posted personal bests across three disciplines, improving by 31.3 percent in 6x6x6 Cube to 4:43.48, 23.4 percent in 7x7x7 Cube to 6:58.30, and 22.5 percent in Megaminx to 2:13.33. Thomas Yeates entered seven events, placing fifth in 3x3x3 Multi-Blind with a first ever attempt of 3/3 in 15:37, while also notching first career attempts in 4x4x4 Blindfolded at 18:57.00 and 7x7x7 Cube at 6:48.32. Andrew Do took on his first official solves in 6x6x6 Cube at 2:40.64 and 7x7x7 Cube at 4:55.14, while Joseph Hodgetts lowered his Square-1 personal best by 28.5 percent to 54.08 and his 5x5x5 Cube mark by 17.4 percent to 2:58.46.

By the time the final timers were cleared at Please Be Finished Brisbane 2025, the tournament had demonstrated the tremendous skill and versatility present in the Australian speed cubing community in 2025. Whether tackling the complex layers of a Rubik's Cube variant without sight or shaving crucial seconds off big-cube averages, the solvers made the weekend memorable across every discipline. As Please Be Finished Brisbane 2025 concluded, competitors left with fresh personal milestones and a shared appreciation for the demanding focus that defines top-level puzzle solving.