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Brantley Taylor

3×3 · top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024TAYL20

Brantley Taylor has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.24, set at Solving in Savannah 2026, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,042nd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since September 2024, he has put 223 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.63 in September 2024 to 9.24, a 44% improvement. Brantley has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.24
signature single · Solving in Savannah 2026
223
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.2412.01
top 5.4%3,042 / 59,724
Skewb3.936.27
top 10.4%1,601 / 18,907
2×23.214.67
top 16.7%6,555 / 40,951
4×450.9752.25
top 25.9%3,985 / 19,072
Clock18.6124.16
top 60.6%5,108 / 8,927
Pyraminx11.3112.19
top 62.7%18,468 / 28,708

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

Cube More in Ardmore 2024: 16.63Wichita Speedcubing Fall 2024: 15.12OKC Holiday Cube-Off 2024: 16.44Zephyr Cube Bash 2025: 14.02GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2025: 11.73Gulf Shores 2025: 11.43Solving in Savannah 2026: 9.24FSUbers 11.0 2026: 11.79GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2026: 11.20GA Cubers Pride 2026: 9.429.2416.6321 Sep 202420 Jun 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 — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.24 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.