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Alex Bourbon

3×3 · top 25.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2025 · 2025BOUR09

Alex Bourbon has been competing for 11 months. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.33, set at Wisconsin on Ice 2026, puts him in the top 25.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,899th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since October 2025, he has put 119 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.88 in October 2025 to 15.33, a 38% improvement. Alex has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 25.5% of 284,439 all-time
15.33
signature single · Wisconsin on Ice 2026
119
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×315.3317.97
top 25.5%13,899 / 59,724
2×23.944.78
top 25.7%10,111 / 40,951
Clock14.1619.01
top 44.5%3,583 / 8,927
Pyraminx9.1415.27
top 46.0%13,244 / 28,708
Skewb10.6413.04
top 58.8%10,786 / 18,907
4×42:19.90
early days — 1 solve16,965 / 19,072

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

Wisconsin Championship 2025: 24.88Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2025: 17.67Wisconsin on Ice 2026: 15.33Machesney Park Spring 2026: 17.04CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 18.2415.3324.884 Oct 20255 Jun 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.94 away.

Targets move as he improves.