[1] Minh Thai from the United States of America was the winner with a best time of 22.95 after three attempts for each contestant.

[1] Writing shortly afterwards, David Singmaster who was one of the judges, described the competition as being efficiently organized, although at one point power for the TV and the display timer failed in the middle of a trial.

[3] The cubes were selected by Ernő Rubik himself, and according to Singmaster "competitors described them as pretty good".

[3] However, writing around 20 years later, Jessica Fridrich who had participated in the contest, criticised the cubes for being "really hard to turn and were not prepared for serious speed cubing".

[5] The World Cube Association, founded in 2004, retroactively recognizes the results of the 1982 championship despite substantial differences between the event and modern speedsolving competitions.