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Brady Sherwood
Square-1 · top 2.2% of 25,272 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023SHER06
Brady Sherwood has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 7.29, set at UCLA Summer 2025, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 162nd in the United States. Until May 2014, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since April 2023, he has put 99 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Brady has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square-1 | 7.29 | 9.78 | top 2.2% | 162 / 6,743 | |
| Skewb | 2.91 | 5.43 | top 4.6% | 708 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 | 9.73 | 11.37 | top 6.7% | 3,678 / 59,724 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.84 | 7.40 | top 12.2% | 3,179 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 3.41 | 3.86 | top 19.1% | 7,489 / 40,951 | |
| Megaminx | 1:41.62 | 1:52.34 | top 35.6% | 2,540 / 7,841 | |
| 4×4 | 1:03.52 | 1:17.86 | top 40.1% | 6,530 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 28.51 | 34.71 | top 43.2% | 5,824 / 15,683 |
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
- 20 Jul 2025Four personal bests in one day at UCLA Summer 2025.
- 8 Apr 2023First competition: Cubing in the Valley 2023. A 10.89 3×3 single to start from.
- 8 Apr 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.98 at Cubing in the Valley 2023.
Competitions
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025
- UCLA Summer 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing in the Valley 2023 · 8 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
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.
- Zack Rubio — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Emil Lazaryev — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Kyeongmin Choi (최경민) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 1.29 away.
- A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
Targets move as he improves.