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Alex Tompa

3×3 · top 0.2% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022TOMP01

Alex Tompa has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.33, set at Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025, puts him in the top 0.2% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 141st in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since January 2022, he has put 957 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.43 in January 2022 to 5.33, a 73% improvement. Alex has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.2% of 288,433 all-time
5.33
signature single · Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025
957
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.337.31
top 0.2%141 / 60,666
Pyraminx1.673.17
top 0.63%191 / 29,168
2×21.381.92
top 1.7%677 / 41,674
Skewb2.383.72
top 2.5%374 / 19,164
Clock4.255.54
top 2.8%242 / 9,172
3×3 one-handed12.5714.09
top 3.8%566 / 15,900
4×436.1242.71
top 7.9%1,211 / 19,354
Megaminx55.791:02.31
top 7.9%563 / 8,026
Square-116.1920.11
top 19.1%1,308 / 6,846
5×51:33.521:45.98
top 30.3%2,427 / 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

Empire State Winter A 2022: 19.43Empire State Spring 2022: 14.19Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 12.55CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.60Edgemont Cubing 2024: 8.29Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 7.64An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 8.96PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 7.35PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 7.95American Dream NJ 2025: 7.13Connecticut Championship 2025: 6.11Brookhaven Summer 2025: 7.24Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 5.33Flushing Glow Autumn PM 2025: 6.59Westport Icebreaker 2026: 6.85PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 6.72Edgemont Cubing 2026: 6.97NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 5.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.47Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 7.28Putnam Lake 2026: 5.94Hazlet Fall 2026: 5.675.3319.4315 Jan 202211 Oct 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-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.67 away.

Targets move as he improves.