People · United States
Alex Collins
3×3 · top 8.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022COLL17
Alex Collins has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.28, set at Kent Fall 2025, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,645th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since October 2022, he has put 306 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 94% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.62 in October 2022 to 10.28, a 65% improvement. Alex has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.28 | 14.67 | top 8.3% | 4,645 / 60,666 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.56 | 7.92 | top 24.3% | 6,731 / 29,168 | |
| Clock | 10.69 | 13.64 | top 28.4% | 2,252 / 9,172 | |
| 2×2 | 4.28 | 5.55 | top 30.1% | 12,171 / 41,674 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.92 | 29.60 | top 41.8% | 5,686 / 15,900 | |
| 4×4 | 1:06.76 | 1:21.18 | top 43.8% | 7,332 / 19,354 | |
| Square-1 | 37.63 | 1:10.57 | top 62.3% | 4,171 / 6,846 | |
| Megaminx | 2:39.01 | — | top 65.7% | 5,140 / 8,026 | |
| Skewb | 13.68 | 23.81 | top 73.6% | 14,084 / 19,164 | |
| 5×5 | 2:59.43 | — | top 77.9% | 7,153 / 9,537 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 Mar 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.59 at Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025.
- 22 Mar 2025Four personal bests in one day at Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025.
- 18 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Vanderbilt Winter 2025.
- 15 Jan 2023First sub-20 3×3: 18.53 at Niner Nation Open 2023.
- 29 Oct 2022First competition: Cuber Jackets Fall 2022. A 29.62 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Kent Fall 2025 · 22 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Lakewood Fall 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- CdA Cube Clash 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Oregon Championship 2025 · 5 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up Seattle 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Vanderbilt Winter 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024 · 4 Oct 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Music City Speedsolving 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Niner Nation Open 2023 · 15 Jan 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cuber Jackets Fall 2022 · 29 Oct 2022
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.
- Tripp Peters — met in 40 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Adhiyan Kumaresan — met in 37 rounds, never finished ahead
- Kaleb Peltola — met in 34 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
- A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 26,233 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.