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Brandon Chu

3×3 · top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2018 · 2018CHUB06

Brandon Chu has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.50, set at Michigan Championship 2024, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 203rd in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since December 2018, he has put 555 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.56 in December 2018 to 7.50, a 48% improvement. Brandon has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time
7.50
signature single · Michigan Championship 2024
555
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×37.508.98
top 2.0%203 / 10,392
3×3 one-handed11.9016.82
top 2.8%57 / 2,620
4×431.6637.47
top 3.9%89 / 3,118
Pyraminx3.985.51
top 7.5%266 / 4,858
2×22.523.67
top 9.1%589 / 7,173
5×51:09.111:15.13
top 11.0%129 / 1,499
Skewb4.728.88
top 16.1%353 / 2,907
Clock8.4410.98
top 17.3%142 / 1,029
6×62:22.222:30.50
top 21.6%108 / 665
7×73:41.893:56.75
top 24.2%98 / 503
3×3 blindfolded1:39.98—
top 26.5%85 / 351
Megaminx1:29.401:35.09
top 27.8%263 / 1,375

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

Oakville Autumn Limited 2018: 14.56Return to Toronto 2019: 13.86Leap to Barrie 2020: 10.13Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 11.88Battle of Waterloo 2022: 8.98Richmond Hill 2022: 10.73Ajax NxNxN 2022: 10.53Waterloo Favourites A 2023: 9.13Pickering D 2023: 9.14Southern Ontario Summer - Newmarket 2023: 8.46Appleby Fall A 2023: 10.73Scarborough Fall A 2023: 8.44Pickering Favourites Autumn 2023: 9.93Greater Toronto 2024: 8.75Thornhill Spring 2024: 8.56Battle of Waterloo 2024: 8.05Michigan Championship 2024: 7.50Wrap It Up Barrie 2024: 7.74Pickering Favourites Fall 2025: 8.947.5014.561 Dec 20181 Nov 2025

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.50 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.90 away.

Targets move as he improves.