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Brayden Adams

3×3 · top 0.12% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018ADAM06

Brayden Adams has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.98, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.12% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 80th in the United States. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 84 competitions since May 2018, he has put 3,770 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 45.94 in May 2018 to 4.98, an 89% improvement. Brayden has entered 84 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.12% of 284,439 all-time
4.98
signature single · CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024
3,770
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×34.986.81
top 0.12%80 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed9.0011.91
top 0.51%78 / 15,683
Square-15.928.12
top 0.75%67 / 6,743
4×426.3528.77
top 1.1%194 / 19,072
Pyraminx2.192.92
top 1.5%398 / 28,708
2×21.431.98
top 1.9%734 / 40,951
Skewb2.334.05
top 2.3%346 / 18,907
5×553.371:02.28
top 2.8%224 / 9,401
Megaminx46.9251.79
top 3.8%272 / 7,841
Clock5.276.56
top 5.1%406 / 8,927
6×61:49.812:00.60
top 7.1%247 / 4,196
3×3 blindfolded45.001:33.94
top 8.2%163 / 2,092
7×72:58.943:11.62
top 10.3%281 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves35.33
top 12.2%280 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind9 of 10 cubes · 55:43—
top 24.6%181 / 731
4×4 blindfolded6:39.0811:12.00
top 34.4%142 / 440
5×5 blindfolded19:59.00—
early days — 2 solves135 / 218

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

Tea Time Spring 2018: 45.94Rally In The Valley 2018: 36.96Fredericksburg Summer Open 2018: 30.84Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 22.36TJHSST Fall 2018: 22.08CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 15.73River Hill Spring 2019: 19.56Rally in the Valley 2019: 15.22CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 19.68Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 13.83Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019: 13.93Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 15.02TJHSST Fall 2019: 12.86Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 11.77Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 11.65Pittsburgh Fall 2021: 8.33Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 7.50River Hill Spring 2022: 7.41Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 7.60Owings Mills Summer 2022: 5.62Silver Spring Summer 2022: 7.28Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 6.77Warwick Cube Day 2023: 7.04CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.00Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 6.93Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 6.25ALL1- Pittsburgh 2023: 7.55MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 6.03Virginia Still-Open Winter 2024: 6.70Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 6.42UMBC Winter 2024: 6.66New-Cumberland County 2024: 7.37Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 6.94New Jersey Championship 2024: 6.59Binghamton Cube Day 2024: 6.49Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 6.56Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 6.26Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.14Eastwood Mall Summer 2024: 7.33Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 6.40Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 7.02High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 6.21East Berlin Favorites PA 2024: 7.04CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 4.98Cumberland County Fall 2024: 6.28Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 5.77River Hill Fall 2024: 6.40Puzzles in Pottsville 2025: 7.25Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 6.88PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 6.04Happy Valley Spring PA 2025: 6.45New-Cumberland County 2025: 6.03Cubes in the Mountains WV 2025: 6.08Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 6.63Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 6.44Front Royal Spring 2025: 6.48UMBC Spring 2025: 5.93East Berlin Eccentric Blocks PA 2025: 7.15TJHSST Spring 2025: 6.30Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.20More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 6.72Virginia Championship 2025: 6.50Ohio State Fall 2025: 5.42New Martinsville Newcomers 2026: 5.91Ohio University 2026: 6.05Grand Central Cubing WV 2026: 7.42Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026: 6.31Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.53Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 6.524.9845.9426 May 201814 Aug 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.