Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description acceptable. This task is the focus of videos posted by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy on the YouTube channel bad·mephisto. When sight is obscured during this task, the Speffz lettering scheme is used. Efficient methods for this task’s FMC variant include ZB and Roux (“roo”). Top brands for this task include MoYu, QiYi (“chee-yee”), and GAN. When performing this task on more complex objects, annoying “parity errors” may occur. The highest and lowest times are dropped from (*) five results of this task prior to averaging during WCA competitions. The C·FOP method for this task ends by “orienting” and “permuting” the last layer after F2L (“F-Two-L”) and may start by constructing a white cross. For 10 points, name this task in which algorithms are used to unscramble the colors of a six-sided puzzle. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 44% | 44% | 90.89 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 0% | 72.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 98.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 25% | 13% | 88.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 17% | 88.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 13% | 94.88 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 102.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 20% | 78.60 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 139.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 102.80 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 79.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Hothem | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | evil women enjoyers | 24 | -5 |
| James Ah Yong | Waterloo B | Waterloo C | 27 | 15 |
| David Zhang | Illinois C | Chicago B | 27 | -5 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 29 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 29 | -5 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | Mac A | 31 | 15 |
| Abhiraam Girish | MSJ | Goober Gang | 42 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Toronto A | 47 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Lancaster | 48 | 15 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Belmont | 53 | 15 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Georgetown | 53 | 15 |
| Emma Victoria Byron | Rutgers | Haverford A | 53 | 15 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State University A | Washington Connections | 53 | 15 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh | Warwick C | 53 | 15 |
| Sky Hong | we need new names | Mahjonng Masters | 53 | 15 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Lexington | 59 | 15 |
| Coy Mier | Goober Gang | MSJ | 60 | 15 |
| Orion Keller | Master and Margaritaville | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 60 | 15 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Chicago A | 61 | 15 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | Claremont A | 61 | 15 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | WashU Charmander | 63 | 15 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA A | 63 | 15 |
| Michael Pu | Gruh | Auburn 2026 | 63 | 15 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 65 | 15 |
| Pranet Sirikonda | Ohio State C | Ohio State D | 67 | 15 |
| Arthur Zhang | NYU C | Maryland B | 68 | 15 |
| Ashley Tran | UCSD | UCSB | 70 | 15 |
| Parikshit Chauhan | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | girl 15 whale i mean they | 73 | -5 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Missouri | 74 | 15 |
| Rachel Bentham | Cambridge | Warwick B | 74 | 15 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | MIT | 75 | 15 |
| Leo Tao | Michigan B | Michigan A | 76 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Guelph | 86 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto C | McGill B | 86 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Bulbasaur | 89 | 10 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield C | Manchester | 89 | 10 |
| Mason Lack | mongeese | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 92 | -5 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | Free Agents 1 | 92 | 10 |
| Kevin Jiang | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 95 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 95 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A | LSE | 95 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 96 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason C | George Mason A | 97 | 10 |
| Zhiheng Liu | Michigan C | Michigan D | 97 | 10 |
| Benjamin Yang | Caltech | Art of Premature Signaling | 98 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 100 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins B | Haverford B | 100 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Brandeis | 101 | 10 |
| Akshath Sivachidhambaram | Illinois Orange | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 101 | 10 |
| Payton Chung | girl 15 whale i mean they | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 101 | 10 |
| Gavin Wagner | WashU Squirtle | SIUE | 104 | 10 |
| Robert Szot | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | mongeese | 106 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Oberlin | 111 | 10 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | CWRU | 111 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 111 | -5 |
| Alyx Reckanh | Billy's Bastion | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 112 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Too much from you lately | 119 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Imperial B | 119 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | UW B | Carleton | 122 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Ottawa A | 122 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | Simon Fraser | 122 | 10 |
| Laura Bullock | Sheffield B | Sheffield A | 125 | 10 |
| Marcus Smith | George Mason B | Catholic University of America | 134 | -5 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | George Mason B | 138 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | George Washington | 139 | 10 |
| Matthew Rittenberg | Arizona State University B | South Dakota School of Mines | 139 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 139 | 10 |
| Emmett Cho | Chicago B | Illinois C | 139 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 139 | 10 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | Toronto D | 139 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan B | 139 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 139 | 10 |
| Robert Wang | evil women enjoyers | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 139 | 10 |