The Weekend Wrap: June 26-28, 2026
A 3BLD world record, a Megaminx female world record, and growing pushback over Clock’s removal led the weekend across speedcubing.
Tommy Cherry reclaimed the 3x3 Blindfolded world record, Stephanie Rose Martin broke the female Megaminx average record, and a petition to keep Clock in the WCA neared 5,000 signatures.
Welcome back to the Speedcuber’s Digest Weekend Wrap, where we look at the most significant results and storylines from this past weekend.
Tommy Cherry - 11.56 3x3 Blindfolded World Record Single
Tommy Cherry reclaimed the 3x3 Blindfolded world record single at Mid-Atlantic Quiet Champs 2026, recording an 11.56 in the final round.
The result moves Cherry back ahead of Charlie Eggins, whose 11.67 world record had stood since January. It also lowers Cherry’s previous personal best of 12.00 by 0.44 seconds.
Cherry’s final-round results were 15.98, 14.26, (11.56), 14.95, and (DNF), giving him the event win and another major result in one of speedcubing’s most demanding events.
The record marks Cherry’s first world record in more than two years. His previous world record came at Triton Tricubealon 2024, where he recorded the first official 12.00-second 3x3 Blindfolded single.
Cherry entered the competition after finishing second in 3x3 Blindfolded at the 2025 World Championship. His latest result returns him to the top of the event and adds another milestone to one of the strongest blindfolded résumés in WCA history.
Stephanie Rose Martin - Female Megaminx World Record Average
Stephanie Rose Martin recorded a 25.93 Megaminx average at Re-Laois the Cubers 2026, setting a new female world record and moving to fourth in the world overall.
Martin’s final-round average came from solves of (26.61), 25.73, 26.43, 25.62, and (25.52). The result also set a new Irish national record.
The performance capped off a competition where Martin had already produced a record-level result earlier in the day. In the first round, she recorded a 26.20 average, which also would have been a female world record and would have ranked second in Europe.
Because the 25.93 came later at the same competition, the WCA records page only lists the faster result as the recognized record.
Martin’s 25.93 places her behind only Timofei Tarasenko, Ziyu Wu, and Leandro Martín López on the global Megaminx average rankings. It also makes her the first female competitor to record a sub-26 Megaminx average.
Clock Petition Nears 5,000 Signatures
Community response to the World Cube Association’s decision to retire Clock continued to grow over the weekend.
A Change.org petition calling for Clock to be reinstated as an official WCA event is approaching 5,000 verified signatures, just days after the WCA announced that Clock would be removed from its official event list following the 2027 World Championship.
The petition has become one of the clearest signs of organized community pushback since the announcement. At the time of writing, it had also reached No. 2 in Change.org’s sports category, trailing only a largely satirical New York Knicks-related petition.
Several notable competitors have spoken out about the decision, including the aforementioned Tommy Cherry, a former world champion and current world record holder in 3x3 Blindfolded.
Speedcuber’s Digest is also collecting community comments on the decision, asking competitors and fans what Clock has meant to them and how they feel about its removal.
Take the Speedcuber’s Digest community survey here:
https://forms.gle/bLnJDeuUFX5bssPV6
For now, the WCA’s decision remains unchanged. Clock is still scheduled to remain official through the 2027 World Championship, while Face Turning Octahedron is set to join the WCA event list in January 2027.
But the petition’s rapid growth shows that many in the community are not ready to let Clock go quietly.