World Cube Association
The World Cube Association is the worldwide non-profit organization that regulates and holds competitions for mechanical puzzles that are operated by twisting groups of pieces, commonly known as twisty puzzles. The most famous of those puzzles is the Rubik's Cube. Since the start of the WCA there have been over 11,700 competitions. The WCA was founded by Ron van Bruchem of the Netherlands and Tyson Mao of the United States in 2004. The goal of the World Cube Association is to have "more competitions in more countries with more people and more fun, under fair and equal conditions." In 2017, they started work to become a non-profit organization and on November 20, 2017, the state of California accepted the initial registration of the World Cube Association.
The organization is run by the board members. It assigns different teams and committees as well as delegates who can organize official competitions. The presence of a delegate is required to make the competition official., over 278,000 people from around the world have participated in WCA competitions and over 15,000 competitions have been held.
Board
Current WCA Board Members
The WCA Board is responsible for leading the organization as a whole, and fulfilling any duties not fulfilled by other Teams, Committees, and Councils| Member | Country | Board member since |
| Blake Thompson | United States | July 2022 |
| Kerrie Jarman | Australia | July 2023 |
| Nick Silvestri | United States | June 2024 |
| Dan Smith | United States | January 2025 |
| Abdullah Gulab | Pakistan | July 2025 |
Former WCA Board Members
| Member | Country | Term |
| Gilles Roux | France | October 2004 – November 2008 |
| Ron van Bruchem | Netherlands | October 2004 – July 2018 |
| Masayuki Akimoto | Japan | September 2005 – January 2012 |
| Tyson Mao | United States | October 2004 – August 2013 |
| Sébastien Auroux | Germany | July 2012 – February 2014 |
| Tim Reynolds | United States | July 2012 – December 2014 |
| Natán Riggenbach | Peru | September 2013 – August 2015 |
| Olivér Perge | Hungary | March 2015 – February 2016, July 2017 |
| Pedro Santos Guimarães | Brazil | March 2015 – July 2018 |
| Ilkyoo Choi | South Korea | September 2013 – July 2017 |
| Chris Hardwick | United States | July 2016 – November 2017 |
| Luis J. Iáñez | Spain | July 2016 – July 2018 |
| Alberto Pérez de Rada Fiol | Spain | November 2017 – November 2019 |
| Chris Wright | United Kingdom | September 2018 – September 2020 |
| Bob Burton | United States | November 2017 - November 2021 |
| Henrik Buus Aagaard | Denmark | November 2019 - November 2021 |
| Saransh Grover | India | September 2020 - September 2022 |
| Callum James Goodyear | United Kingdom | September 2020 - January 2023 |
| Somya Srivastava | India | July 2022 - January 2024 |
| Michael Chai | United States | July 2023 - October 2024 |
| Ethan Pride | Australia | July 2019 - July 2025 |
Structure of the WCA
WCA Board of Directors
The WCA Board of Directors is the leadership team of the WCA and its highest authority. WCA Directors are Officers of the WCA and also have the role of Full Delegate. The WCA Board is responsible for the WCA organization as a whole. They discuss issues that affect the WCA and advise the committees. The WCA Board oversees that the applications to hold WCA Competitions meet fair conditions to ensure equality throughout the World, and finally it approves and announces the competitions accordingly. After competitions, they read reports from the WCA delegates about competitions to be up to date on the WCA activity worldwide and take part in the discussion of any incidents that occur.The Board is also responsible for helping the WCA fulfill its mission of “more competitions in more countries with more people and more fun, under fair and equal conditions.”
WCA Teams and Committees
WCA Appeals CommitteeThe WCA Appeals Committee is responsible for reviewing and resolving appeals regarding decisions made by other WCA Staff. The WAC provides an independent and impartial review process to ensure that decisions are fair, reasonable, and in accordance with WCA policies and regulations.
WCA Communication Team
The WCA Communication Team is in charge of overseeing and supporting communications. This includes answering general requests that are submitted via the WCA website and maintaining the WCA's social media accounts. The team responds to multiple emails a day regarding starting cubing competitions in new areas, what to do for people's first competition, big media requests about competitive speedcubing, and many other issues. Many requests are also forwarded to the appropriate WCA Team or Delegate if they are regarding a particular competition or region.WCA Competition Announcement Team
The WCA Competition Announcement Team is responsible for approving and announcing WCA Competitions. They review and announce competition submissions to the WCA.WCA Executive Assistants Team
The WCA Executive Assistants Team assists the WCA Board of Directors with administrative tasks.WCA Financial Committee
The WCA Financial Committee is responsible for everything regarding finances within the WCA. As an Advisory Committee, they manage the finances and accounts of the WCA by an approved annual budget proposal, which is also their work to provide regularly. Similarly, the Financial Committee pays invoices and taxes that are directed to the WCA, after consultation and with permission of the WCA Board. Every quarter, they report and advise the WCA Board on all finances of the WCA to give them a summary of the scope of financial possibilities and options that the WCA has. The WCA Treasurer is a member of the Financial Committee.WCA Integrity Committee
The WCA Integrity Committee performs independent investigations regarding WCA community members and incidents during WCA Competitions or on official, online WCA platforms. These incidents are alleged violations of the Spirit, Code of Conduct, Code of Ethics and/or Regulations of the WCA.
They can be contacted by WCA officials or community members to be made aware of possible violations at WCA competitions. Initial contact with the team is usually through emails or directly from any competitor or Delegate. If the Team Leader agrees that this case falls under the WIC's jurisdiction, a WIC case is initiated. The team attempts to correspond with everyone involved to provide an independent report for the investigation. Once a decision is made, they inform all relevant persons of any actions and make a public announcement if necessary.
WCA Marketing Team
The WCA Marketing Team is responsible for managing WCA relationships with external partners as well as working closely with the WCA Brand. They are currently seeking help with WCA Merchandise, Sponsorships, and Contracts.WCA Quality Assurance Committee
The WCA Quality Assurance Committee is responsible for quality improvement.WCA Regulations Committee
The WCA Regulations Committee was founded to support the WCA Board in maintaining the WCA Regulations in 2011. Over the years, their area of responsibility has been broadened, they currently handle all issues which are related to the application, improvement, and development of the WCA Regulations. They support Delegates on any kind of procedural matters happening at competitions and decide on unresolved and uncovered incidents. The WRC regularly publishes WCA internal reports to help all Delegates and improve their knowledge of the Regulations. This includes regulation changes based on feedback from the WCA staff and the community, while also taking into account their insights and reports of incidents that occur during WCA competitions. New versions of the Regulations are published yearly or bi-yearly. Another part of their work is to encourage members of the WCA community to create and maintain translations of the Regulations.WCA Results Team
The WCA Results Team is responsible for managing all data in the databases of the WCA, especially competition results and personal data.The biggest regular task of the WCA Results Team is posting results of WCA competitions to the WCA website, once the Delegate of the competition has reported them. They check if the results were submitted correctly and if so, transfer them into the WCA results database. This work of the Results Team assures the data quality of the databases of the WCA. Each such posting procedure is ended by creating a public post on the WCA website, which are visible on the frontpage of the WCA website.
Apart from posting competition results, the WCA Results Team is also responsible for making corrections to competition results if necessary and they are in charge of administering all WCA profile pages. This includes changing user data, like dates of birth, according to verified requests and managing profile picture requests.
WCA Software Team
The WCA website is an open source project on GitHub. The WCA Software Team is responsible for bringing continuous improvements to the website frequently, to allow all of the community members to easily access and enjoy WCA content. Recently internationalization was implemented, so now people can use the WCA website in their native language. Other important milestones are the development of the registration system, and especially payments. The team keeps an eye on the website all the time to ensure it is permanently available and they react quickly whenever something is wrong.The Software Team develops new software for various tasks within the WCA whenever needed. Thus, they created an app simplifying translating the website, to engage more people translating into their language. On 21 August 2012 the WCA Workbook assistant has released, which is used by all delegates to submit the competition results to the WCA Results Team. The Software Team also updates the official WCA Scrambler, TNoodle, which is currently on version 1.2.2 as of February 27, 2024, according to data provided by the WCA Regulations Committee if changes are needed. Additionally, they maintain and develop administrative tools for various Delegates, Committees, and board members on the WCA website.