World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007

World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007
Location:	Budapest, Hungary
Date(s):	2007 October 5–7
Preceded by:	WC2005
Succeeded by:	WC2009

World Rubik's Games Championship 2007 (usually called World Championship 2007, abbreviated to WC2007) was a speedcubing World Championship held at the Novotel Budapest Congress in Budapest, Hungary on October 5-7, 2007. It was the third World Championship of the modern speedcubing era and the second after the creation of the WCA.

Yu Nakajima won the 3×3 final with an average time of 12.46 seconds. Andrew Kang finished second (13.05) and Mitsuki Gunji finished third (13.05)

Winners

• 3x3x3 Cube: Yu Nakajima (中島悠)
• 2x2x2 Cube: Łukasz Ciałoń
• 4x4x4 Cube: Mátyás Kuti
• 5x5x5 Cube: Mátyás Kuti
• 3x3x3 Blindfolded: Rafał Guzewicz
• 3x3x3 Fewest Moves: Zbigniew Zborowski
• 3x3x3 One-Handed: Ryan Patricio
• 3x3x3 With Feet: Anssi Vanhala
• Megaminx: Erik Akkersdijk
• Pyraminx: Grzegorz Łuczyna
• Rubik's Clock: Ernesto Fernández Regueira
• Square-1: Grzegorz Prusak
• 4x4x4 Blindfolded: Chris Hardwick
• 5x5x5 Blindfolded: Bernett Orlando
• 3x3x3 Multi-Blind: Rafał Guzewicz
• Rubik's Magic: Róbert Örkényi
• Master Magic: Máté Horváth
• Rubik's Cube - Multiple blind old style: Rafał Guzewicz

World Records Set

• 2x2 average of 3.91 by Łukasz Ciałoń (Final)
• 5x5 average of 1:45.07 by Mátyás Kuti (Final)
• 3x3x3 One-Handed average of 21.13 by Ryan Patricio (Final)
• Megaminx single of 1:17.46 by Erik Akkersdijk (Final)
• Megaminx average of 1:19.16 by Erik Akkersdijk (Final)
• 3x3 Multi-Blind of 6/6 47:58 by Rafał Guzewicz (Final)

Trivia

• Saturday, October 6th, 2007 was the first day since its creation that the Yahoo! Speed Solving Rubik's Cube Group had no post.

External Links

• WC2007 full results on WCA Database
• World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007, Official website (speedcubing.com)
• Post-WC07 thread on the Yahoo! group
• World champ favorites