Please Be Quiet Brisbane 2023

Inside Northside Christian College, a focused quiet took over the venue as competitors faced the unique tension of specialty disciplines. The competition hall maintained an intense hush across April 1 and April 2, with thirty solvers gathering in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to test their precision. Unlike standard elimination formats that forgive a solitary mistake through an average of five, disciplines scored by a mean of three demand absolute consistency. A single lapse, an overshot turn, or an incomplete deduction leaves no room to hide, turning every attempt into a high-stakes balancing act between raw pace and total accuracy.

That unforgiving dynamic shaped Please Be Quiet Brisbane 2023 across ten rounds of action. In 3x3x3 Fewest Moves, solvers spent uninterrupted hours analysing scrambles, searching for efficient turn counts where one inefficient branch can ruin an entire three-attempt average. Benjamin Warry navigated the mental marathon to secure top honours with a winning average of 27.00 moves and a best single of 26. Charlie Eggins followed in second place with a 37.67 average, sharing the same final mark as Hayden Ng, who secured third place on the podium.

The blindfolded disciplines pushed the risk tolerance even further, where memorisation must be paired with flawless execution under a blindfold. In the 3x3x3 Blindfolded category, Charlie Eggins delivered a dominant performance over three rounds, logging a best single of 13.71 seconds on the classic Rubik's Cube mechanism and sealing the victory with an official winning average of 15.56 seconds. Bpaul Paul claimed second place with a 16.81 average, while Jamie Otsu earned third place with a 1:10.40 average, standing out amid twenty-five competitors tackling the blindfold challenge.

Eggins carried that commanding speed into the larger blindfolded puzzles, taking first place in 4x4x4 Blindfolded with a winning single of 2:14.57 ahead of Bpaul Paul at 5:45.99 and David McLean at 9:20.92. Eggins also captured the 3x3x3 Multi-Blind title by successfully resolving 24 out of 27 cubes within 54 minutes and 39 seconds. McLean took the runner-up spot with 12 out of 13 cubes in 58:58, while Ming Dao Ting achieved a perfect 7 out of 7 in 48:27 for third place.

The 5x5x5 Blindfolded event delivered its signature test of endurance and memory, where even the slightest lapse guarantees a disqualified solve. David McLean managed the complexities of the big cube to take victory with a single time of 34:19.00, leading Ming Dao Ting who took second place in 37:54.00. While averages in both big blind events yielded DNFs for the field, McLean and Ting demonstrated the composure required to record valid finishes on the national stage.

Away from the top of the podium, several solvers unlocked remarkable milestones during the cubing competition. Evan Magiannis delivered a massive leap in Clock, posting a personal best of 21.52 seconds to finish 63 percent faster than his prior standard, while also making his first ever attempt at 3x3x3 Fewest Moves with a mark of 52. Samuel Long also found tremendous progress on the dials, recording a Clock personal best of 9.43 seconds, an improvement of 55 percent, while lowering his Fewest Moves mark by 12.5 percent to 42. Thomas Wood cut his Clock personal best by 40.6 percent down to 15.92 seconds, and Raymond Wu Won dropped his 3x3x3 Blindfolded mark by 35.9 percent to 1:24.45.

First-time event debuts also highlighted the depth of the field throughout the weekend. Josiah Freudigmann tackled 3x3x3 Fewest Moves for the first time with an opening 37, made his first Clock run with 18.48, and improved his 3x3x3 Blindfolded time by 15.3 percent to 3:07.39. Moses Limmer ventured into 3x3x3 Multi-Blind for the first time with 2 out of 3 cubes in 14:22, recorded a 6:11.15 in his first 3x3x3 Blindfolded solve, and improved his Fewest Moves best by 22 percent to 39. Baden Forster lowered his 3x3x3 Blindfolded standard by 34.4 percent to 1:26.01 and placed fourth, while Jeremy Johnson made his debut in Fewest Moves with a 44 alongside a first 3x3x3 Blindfolded time of 8:09.21.

The action shifted to rapid mechanical precision in the Clock event, where Conan Mo took first place across three rounds with a winning average of 4.75 seconds and a weekend-best single of 3.92 seconds. Avery Graham secured second place with a 5.08 average, and Hayden Ng claimed third on 6.73. With Australian competitors claiming all twenty podium positions across the tournament, the 2023 edition of Please Be Quiet Brisbane 2023 highlighted how patience, memory, and precise speedcubing technique define high-pressure WCA competition formats as athletes reflect on these 3x3 results and prepare for the next season of speed cubing.