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Austin Lee Gagnon

3×3 · top 7.2% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025GAGN01

Austin Lee Gagnon has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.89, set at Rocky Mountain Championship 2026, puts him in the top 7.2% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,004th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since January 2025, he has put 485 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.93 in January 2025 to 9.89, a 63% improvement. Austin has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.2% of 288,433 all-time
9.89
signature single · Rocky Mountain Championship 2026
485
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.8912.27
top 7.2%4,004 / 60,666
2×22.684.17
top 10.8%4,298 / 41,674
Skewb4.416.96
top 13.9%2,178 / 19,164
Pyraminx6.4011.40
top 23.1%6,335 / 29,168
3×3 one-handed22.0825.57
top 26.4%3,445 / 15,900
4×455.511:07.64
top 31.4%5,020 / 19,354
Clock12.4015.80
top 36.9%3,001 / 9,172
Megaminx1:54.032:39.41
top 42.7%3,185 / 8,026
Square-129.9938.85
top 49.4%3,279 / 6,846
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves47.00
top 51.9%1,117 / 2,059
5×52:05.702:20.18
top 53.0%4,532 / 9,537
6×64:17.635:10.10
top 71.1%2,844 / 4,262
7×78:10.30—
early days — 2 solves2,927 / 3,236

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

Prescott Winter 2025: 26.93Lopes Up AZ 2025: 27.11Cubing at the Peak AZ 2025: 16.66Cube More in Taylor 2025: 17.45Square-1 Showdown AZ 2025: 14.75Bring the Heat AZ 2025: 17.05Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2025: 12.42Rocky Mountain Championship 2025: 14.11Frost-Free Favorites AZ 2025: 15.76Arizona Championship 2026: 12.58Lopes Up AZ 2026: 12.60Cube Against Cancer Arizona 2026: 12.09UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 12.69Prescott Spring 2026: 12.36Bring the Heat AZ 2026: 10.74Rocky Mountain Championship 2026: 9.89Lopes Up AZ Fall 2026: 9.989.8927.1118 Jan 202520 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.89 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.68 away.

Targets move as he improves.