Registration takes place on the register tab of the WCA website. To register in a given phase, you must qualify for at least one event by having achieved a strictly better result than the qualification time at a previous WCA competition. If you currently don’t qualify for any events for an ongoing phase, you must wait until a later phase to register. You can only register for events that you already qualify for.
Additional events will not be added for you. If, for example, you register in phase 1 but have events that you only have a phase 3 qualification time for, you will have to manually add those events when phase 3 opens.
Similarly, you must manually add new events if you qualify for them after your initial registration. Once the results from that competition have been posted, you can add them to your registration on the register tab.
The final day to achieve results counting towards qualification for events is 2027-05-23.
All phase opening and closing times occur at 15:00 CET. Please refer to the event tab of the WCA website for complete event details.
An average result (except where single is explicitly stated), which is strictly better than the qualification result, is required to qualify.
| Phase 1 Nov 22 – Dec 2 | Phase 2 Dec 6 – Dec 16 | Phase 3 Dec 20 – Mar 31 | |
| 3x3x3 | < 7.00 | < 9.00 | < 1:00.00 |
| 2x2x2 | < 1.45 | < 2.35 | < 30.00 |
| 4x4x4 | < 26.50 | < 32.50 | < 1:03:00 |
| 5x5x5 | < 49.00 | < 56.00 | < 1:03.00 |
| 6x6x6 | < 1:33.00 | < 1:36.50 | < 1:41.00 |
| 7x7x7 | < 2:21.00 | < 2:26.50 | < 2:40.00 |
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | < 21.50 (single) | < 26.50 (single) | < 51.25 (single) |
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | < 23.00 | < 25.00 | Top 100 |
| 3x3x3 One-Handed | < 11.00 | < 13.25 | < 15.75 |
| Clock | < 3.80 | < 6.00 | < 15.00 |
| Megaminx | < 39.50 | < 48.00 | < 1:00.00 |
| Pyraminx | < 2.10 | < 3.50 | < 30.00 |
| Skewb | < 2.70 | < 4.15 | < 30.00 |
| Square-1 | < 8.40 | < 11.00 | < 14.50 |
| 4x4x4 Blindfolded | < 2:07.00 (single) | < 2:30.00 (single) | Top 70 (by single) |
| 5x5x5 Blindfolded | < 5:50.00 (single) | < 7:00.00 (single) | Top 70 (by single) |
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | > 31 points (single) | > 27 points (single) | Top 50 (by single) |
| Face Turning Octahedron | N/A | N/A | Top 400 |