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Adam Walker

3×3 · top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2012 · 2012WALK02

Adam Walker has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.29, set at Las Vegas Spring 2018, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,019th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 90 competitions since August 2012, he has put 2,513 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.18 in August 2012 to 7.29, a 58% improvement. Adam has entered 90 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.29
signature single · Las Vegas Spring 2018
2,513
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.298.86
top 1.7%1,019 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed12.6615.54
top 3.9%572 / 15,683
4×432.6239.23
top 4.7%739 / 19,072
2×22.483.94
top 8.7%3,422 / 40,951
5×51:07.351:23.57
top 9.8%774 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves35.00
top 17.4%385 / 2,040
Clock9.8011.38
top 24.1%1,847 / 8,927
6×62:37.442:48.83
top 29.4%1,036 / 4,196
Pyraminx7.9623.19
top 35.9%10,140 / 28,708
3×3 blindfolded2:21.492:48.10
top 40.6%857 / 2,092
7×74:46.635:06.65
top 46.6%1,355 / 3,184
Skewb11.8813.08
top 65.4%12,180 / 18,907
Square-151.28—
early days — 2 solves5,119 / 6,743

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

United States National Championships 2012: 17.18Diamond Bar Open 2012: 12.18Antelope Valley Winter 2013: 13.36World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 11.45Caltech Fall Open 2013: 10.47Antelope Valley Fall 2014: 9.97Caltech Fall Open 2014: 10.67SoCal Supercomp 2015: 9.65Nisei Week 2015: 8.36Utah Megacomp 2015: 9.86Cubing at SkillCon 2015: 9.98US Nationals 2016: 8.33Nisei Week 2016: 9.59Skillcon 2016: 9.64Las Vegas Spring 2017: 8.22Northwest Championships 2017: 9.00Nisei Week 2017: 8.62Skillcon 2017: 9.84Las Vegas Spring 2018: 7.29CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 8.02Nisei Week 2018: 9.47Poly Cubed 2018: 8.15CubeChella 2018: 8.58Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 8.64Mudd Winter 2019: 8.77UCSD Winter 2019: 8.92Las Vegas Spring 2019: 8.58Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019: 8.72Rose City 2019: 8.69West LA Spring 2019: 7.99Bay Area Speedcubin' 17 2019: 8.08CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 7.74Bay Area Speedcubin' 18 2019: 8.21San Diego Summer 2019: 8.87Santa Barbara Fall 2019: 8.38Mudd Fall 2019: 9.25Bobcat Battle 2019: 7.89Grossmont Fall 2019: 8.81UCSD Winter 2020: 8.13West LA Winter 2020: 8.04Mudd Winter 2020: 8.02A Bruin Cube Day 2022: 8.41SnoCo Favorites 2022: 7.81Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022: 8.62Big Cubes in Bothell 2022: 8.44Cubing on the Octagon 2022: 9.81Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 8.48Bothell Spring Open 2023: 8.06Bobcat Battle 2023: 9.03Washington Championship 2023: 8.60Lakewood Spring 2023: 8.88Kent Spring 2023: 8.36Mill Creek 2023: 8.96Bothell Summer 2023: 8.93Canadian Championship 2023: 7.77Kent Summer 2023: 8.48Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 8.28Bobcat Battle Fall 2023: 8.78Bay Area Speedcubin' 54 Live - SSF 2023: 8.43SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 8.23UW or U Don't 2023: 8.31Canada's Best in the West 2024: 7.80Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 7.73Bobcat Battle Newcomers 2024: 8.53Olympia Classic 2024: 8.62Husky Pride Seattle 2024: 8.86Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.93Panhandle Lake Cube & Camp 2024: 8.10Kent Summer 2024: 8.46Reno Mini Summer 2024: 7.55Bellevue Cubing Afternoon - Highlands 2024: 8.23Olympia Fall 2024: 8.41Tacoma Winter 2025: 8.21Berkeley Winter 2025: 9.03EVO Sports Expo Cubing - Santa Clara 2025: 9.25Warm Up Seattle 2025: 8.10Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.49North Sound Spring 2026: 9.39Dawgs at Denny UW 2026: 7.65Summer Scramble UW 2026: 9.02Northwest Championship 2026: 9.13Bay Area Speedcubin' 69 2026: 10.197.2917.183 Aug 201229 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.29 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.