People · United States
Bella Gates
2×2 · top 19.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025GATE03
Bella Gates has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.46, set at Agoura Summer 2026, puts her in the top 19.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,726th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since April 2025, she has put 132 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 37.43 in May 2025 to 25.42, a 32% improvement. Bella has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 3.46 | 6.94 | top 19.7% | 7,726 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.93 | 13.60 | top 52.4% | 15,291 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 | 25.42 | 31.98 | top 53.5% | 31,383 / 59,724 |
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
- 15 Jun 2025First sub-30 3×3: 28.69 at Minnesota Slice 2025.
- 5 Apr 2025First competition: St. Ansgar 2025.
Competitions
- Agoura Summer 2026 · 20 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Minnesota Championship 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025 · 22 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Missouri Championship 2025 · 18 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing in the Cornfields IA 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Madison Manor Warmup 2025 · 23 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Land of Lincoln 2025 · 21 Jun 2025
- Minnesota Slice 2025 · 15 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Door County Cube Challenge 2025 · 10 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- St. Ansgar 2025 · 5 Apr 2025
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 her.
- Jacob Gates — met in 27 rounds, finished ahead once
- Trenton Cuzick — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lisa Kucala — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
- A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 1.93 away.
Targets move as she improves.