People · United States
Braden Rowlett
3×3 · top 6.4% of 288,433 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024ROWL03
Braden Rowlett has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.60, set at Welcome Back Tulsa 2025, puts him in the top 6.4% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,597th in the United States. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since September 2024, he has put 74 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.67 in September 2024 to 9.60, a 30% improvement. Braden has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% 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 | 9.60 | 12.92 | top 6.4% | 3,597 / 60,666 | |
| 4×4 | 45.15 | 53.30 | top 18.6% | 2,837 / 19,354 | |
| 5×5 | 1:32.58 | 1:38.13 | top 29.5% | 2,359 / 9,537 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 52.23 | — | early days — 2 solves | 11,746 / 15,900 |
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
- 8 Mar 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.60 at Welcome Back Tulsa 2025.
- 21 Sep 2024First competition: Cube More in Ardmore 2024. A 13.67 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- OKC Winter 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- OKC Weeknight Solves 2025 · 11 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Welcome Back Tulsa 2025 · 8 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025 · 16 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Cube More in Ardmore 2024 · 21 Sep 2024
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.
- Weston Smoliak — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Jeffrey Woolston — met in 16 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Michael S. Lander — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.60 away.
- A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,370 people have one; it is 5.15 away.
Targets move as he improves.