1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship

The 1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship was a competition for speedsolving the 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube. It was held in Budapest, Hungary. Minh Thai from the United States of America was the winner with a best time of 22.95 after three attempts for each contestant. The top attempt of three was taken as the competitor's score.^[1]

This competition was the first offiicially recognised competition of it's kind. The next competition was held in 2003 in Canada, with many differences to the competition structure and many other puzzles being added other than the Rubik's Cube.^[2]

Results

Place	Name	Time	Status	Country	Attempt 1	Attempt 2	Attempt 3
1	Minh Thai	22.95	WR	USA	27.16	22.95	27.97
2	Guus Razoux Schultz	24.32	ER	Netherlands	24.32	31.51	26.51
3	Zoltán Lábas	24.49	NR	Hungary	24.49	27.58	28.21
4	Lars Petrus	24.57	NR	Sweden	35.42	33.11	24.57
5	Ken'ichi Ueno	24.91	AsR	Japan	27.56	27.90	24.91
6	Jerome Jean-Charles	25.06	NR	France	27.87	31.18	25.06
7	Julian Chilvers	25.95	NR	United Kingdom	30.59	25.95	27.46
8	Duc Trinh	26.63	NR	Canada	37.44	26.63	36.09
9	Giuseppe Romeo	28.11	NR	Italy	34.23	41.75	28.11
10	Jessica Fridrich	29.11	NR	Czech Republic	31.49	29.11	33.20
11	Eduardo Valdivia Chacon	29.62	SAR	Peru	34.91	29.62	30.01
12	Luc Van Laethem	29.73	NR	Belgium	32.92	34.98	29.73
13	József Borsos	30.02	NR	Yugoslavia	36.75	35.33	30.02
14	Roland Brinkmann	30.59	NR	Germany	34.80	30.59	32.52
15	Jari Sandqvist	31.17	NR	Finland	31.17	DNF*	31.56
16	Manuel Galrinho	37.11	NR	Portugal	40.74	48.67	37.11
17	Piotr Sebenski	37.50	NR	Poland	44.40	37.50	40.86
18	Svilen Tenev	47.29	NR	Bulgaria	51.88	47.29	47.35
19	Josef Trajber	50.16	NR	Austria	50.16	54.93	58.99

WR = World Record

ER = European Record

AsR = Asian Record

SAR = South American Record

NR = National Record

• Sandqivst's second attempt was disqualified since his cube was broken twice in the same attempt. This was a violation of the competition rules and the attempt was stopped at that point.^[3]

References

1. "World Rubik's Cube Championship 1982 | World Cube Association". www.worldcubeassociation.org. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
2. "World Rubik's Games Championship 2003 | World Cube Association". www.worldcubeassociation.org. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
3. http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/cubewrld.html