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Alex Hamburg

Clock · top 8.0% of 32,048 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019HAMB01

Alex Hamburg has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 6.21, set at CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 625th in the United States. Until July 2011, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 76 competitions since June 2019, he has put 1,712 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.09 in June 2019 to 10.54, a 56% improvement. Alex has entered 76 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 8.0% of 32,048 all-time
6.21
signature single · CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025
1,712
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock6.217.72
top 8.0%625 / 8,927
3×310.5413.26
top 9.1%4,966 / 59,724
Skewb4.547.55
top 14.8%2,307 / 18,907
Pyraminx5.269.45
top 14.8%3,885 / 28,708
2×23.094.95
top 15.3%5,988 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed20.8127.72
top 22.7%2,915 / 15,683
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves39.67
top 23.4%507 / 2,040
Megaminx1:23.971:29.63
top 24.3%1,677 / 7,841
4×453.7559.25
top 29.2%4,571 / 19,072
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 44:43—
top 31.5%233 / 731
3×3 blindfolded2:10.722:47.91
top 36.8%775 / 2,092
5×51:49.662:00.16
top 42.3%3,444 / 9,401
Square-127.1336.07
top 43.8%2,847 / 6,743
6×63:29.204:17.05
top 54.3%2,051 / 4,196
7×75:22.046:55.53
top 57.4%1,698 / 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

Arcadia Summer 2019: 24.09CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 31.66Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 28.81Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 29.80Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 21.57River Hill Spring 2024: 24.48Spring into Summit 2024: 21.79North Jersey Speedsolving A 2024: 22.96New Jersey Championship 2024: 23.15Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 16.34New Rochelle at Nite 5 2024: 18.14Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 16.38UMBC Fall 2024: 15.73East Berlin Favorites PA 2024: 16.84Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 16.65CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 16.27Cumberland County Fall 2024: 15.29ALL1- Empire State 2024: 15.41Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 15.44Springfield Cube Day 2024: 15.59Flushing Open AM 2024: 15.97Happy Valley Fall PA 2024: 17.04Jay Peak Cubikon 2024: 15.39Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 16.39Pop Off Princeton 2025: 16.12Rutgers Winter 2025: 16.03PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 15.65PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 17.81Great Peconic Bay 2025: 14.78Tipping Point Bloomsburg 2025: 15.72River Hill Spring 2025: 14.19King of Prussia Spring 2025: 13.09American Dream NJ 2025: 15.41UMBC Spring 2025: 13.76East Berlin Eccentric Blocks PA 2025: 15.60Puzzles in Pottsville Spring 2025: 15.03CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 14.37Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 13.42Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 12.77Long Island Summer 2025: 12.97More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 13.27Bucks County Cubing PM 2025: 13.74CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 13.64NxNything Goes Bloomsburg 2025: 12.45Christmas City Cubing PA 2025: 12.46Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 12.26River Hill Fall 2025: 12.66PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 15.49Lodi Solves Spring 2026: 13.35King of Prussia Spring 2026: 13.29PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 10.54Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 13.59RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026: 12.97Cherry Hill Mini May 2026: 12.28King of Prussia Summer 2026: 12.1910.5431.6622 Jun 201925 Jul 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 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 0.21 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.54 away.

Targets move as he improves.