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Abby Newlander

Clock · top 1.3% of 32,048 all-time · competing since February 2023 · 2023NEWL01

Abby Newlander has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.40, set at Agoura Summer 2026, puts her in the top 1.3% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 124th in the United States. Until July 2018, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since February 2023, she has put 1,017 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 35.00 in February 2023 to 8.25, a 76% improvement. Abby has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 1.3% of 32,048 all-time
3.40
signature single · Agoura Summer 2026
1,017
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock3.404.59
top 1.3%124 / 8,927
2×21.523.28
top 2.2%888 / 40,951
3×38.2510.61
top 3.2%1,838 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.318.59
top 4.7%1,239 / 28,708
Skewb3.205.33
top 6.0%934 / 18,907
4×442.0945.84
top 14.6%2,188 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed19.8726.23
top 20.1%2,589 / 15,683
Megaminx1:37.291:51.89
top 32.9%2,328 / 7,841
5×51:42.181:48.47
top 37.0%2,950 / 9,401
6×63:17.263:27.54
top 49.2%1,839 / 4,196
7×76:12.93—
early days — 2 solves2,169 / 3,184

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Oak Valley Winter A 2023: 35.00UCSD Spring 2023: 30.62UCSD For Hemophilia 2023: 27.18Poway Summer Cubing 2023: 24.99Agoura Cubing Again 2023: 20.67UCSD Summer 2023: 18.25Corona Summer 2023: 19.44UCSD Unofficial Events 2023: 17.03UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 19.19UCSD Winter 2023: 16.84Poway Cubing Winter 2024: 15.13San Diego Newcomers 2024: 14.18Santa Barbara Cubing 2024: 14.30Westview Cubing Favorites 2024: 11.39CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 12.36La La Land 2024: 14.11Super Duper San Diego 2024: 11.04Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 10.85UCLA Spring 2025: 12.01Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 10.74West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025: 9.62West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 11.32Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.47UCLA Summer 2025: 11.80UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 9.33West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 11.34UO Fall 2025: 8.56Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 9.28UO Valentine's Day 2026: 10.51Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026: 9.69Eugene Spring 2026: 8.25Agoura Summer 2026: 11.11Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.15Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 9.51Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 10.418.2535.0025 Feb 202322 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to her.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.52 away.

Targets move as she improves.