The World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007, also known as WC2007, was a competition for speedsolving the 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube, and various other mechanical puzzles that are operated by twisting groups of pieces, commonly known as twisty puzzles.
History The competition was the fourth Rubik's Cube World Championship and it was held in Budapest, Hungary, which was the same host city of the 1982 Rubik's Cube World Championship.https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/WC1982 It was attended by 214 participants representing 32 countries. It was organized by the WC2007 Organization Team, headed by the competition's delegates Ron van Bruchem, Tyson Mao, and Gilles Roux.
Yu Nakajima from Japan was the winner with an average time of 12.46 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. The prize for 1st place was 5000 euros. The average was taken over the middle three of five solve times (which excludes the fastest and slowest).
Results 3x3x3 Cube Place Name Average Status Country Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Attempt 3 Attempt 4 Attempt 5 Average of 5 1 Yu Nakajima 12.46 NR 11.50 13.43 14.38 12.16 11.78 2 Andrew Kang 13.05 NAR 15.33 15.18 11.90 10.88 12.06 3 Mitsuki Gunji 13.05 12.66 16.50 12.41 12.61 13.88
NAR = North American Record NR = National Record
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