Chen Chen wins tight 4x4 battle at Guangzhou Big Cubes 2026
Chen Chen edged Kaichen Huang by 0.17 seconds in Guangzhou’s 4x4 race, while the same weekend also hosted a local FMC World stop.
Chen Chen won the 4x4x4 Cube at Guangzhou Big Cubes 2026 with a 23.82-second average, holding off Kaichen Huang’s 23.99 in one of the tighter podiums of the South China weekend. Zijian Cai took third at 24.32, a finish that showed how little separation there was at the top of the field.
The meet ran June 20, 2026, at Yeo’s Fashion Factory in Haizhu District, with solving in Meeting Room 220, Block B, No. 9 Andingli Street. The World Cube Association entry listed Aite Canton Co., Ltd., the Guangzhou Cubing Organizing Team, and Ming Zheng as organizers, and Ming Zheng also served as the WCA delegate. The registration list reached 113 competitors, including seven first-timers and 106 returning cubers, a sign of both steady local depth and a clear entry path for players moving beyond 3x3 into larger cubes.
The 4x4 result was especially sharp when set against last year’s Guangzhou Big Cubes 2025. Zijian Cai had won that edition with a 23.46 average, followed by Ziyu Wu at 23.64 and Jiazhou Li at 24.72. This year’s top three stayed in the same sub-25 zone, but Chen Chen’s margin over Kaichen Huang was slim enough to turn every solve into a pressure test rather than a victory lap.
Guangzhou’s big-cube meet also sat alongside a different kind of WCA spotlight. FMC World 2026 was scheduled for Sunday, June 21, from 00:00 to 04:00 UTC, and the Guangzhou site ran from 8:00 to 12:00 in the Meeting Room of Conghua Argyle Hotel at No. 514 Guangcong South Road. The Guangzhou FMC site also set aside separate local awards for its top three competitors and invited cubers to gather at Guangzhou Tropic of Cancer Park after the event, noting the summer solstice on June 21.
That made the weekend more than a routine regional stop. Chen’s 4x4 win gave Guangzhou Big Cubes 2026 its headline result, but the bigger picture was the same one the numbers already told: a 113-person field, a tight sub-25 podium, and a city hosting both big-cube speed and FMC prestige across the same WCA weekend.
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