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Brayden Thompson

3×3 blindfolded · top 0.24% of 12,178 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022THOM14

Brayden Thompson has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 15.42, set at Madison Manor PBQ 2026, puts him in the top 0.24% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in the United States. Until July 2021, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 51 competitions since June 2022, he has put 2,146 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.61 in June 2022 to 6.85, a 41% improvement. Brayden has entered 51 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 0.24% of 12,178 all-time
15.42
signature single · Madison Manor PBQ 2026
2,146
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 blindfolded15.4216.89
top 0.24%8 / 2,092
Clock2.754.29
top 0.47%48 / 8,927
3×36.857.96
top 1.2%729 / 59,724
4×427.7634.03
top 1.7%281 / 19,072
5×554.481:00.58
top 3.2%263 / 9,401
6×61:38.311:41.78
top 3.7%132 / 4,196
Skewb2.765.02
top 3.9%606 / 18,907
4×4 blindfolded2:15.195:20.63
top 4.0%16 / 440
Pyraminx3.416.11
top 5.1%1,333 / 28,708
7×72:38.822:45.94
top 5.3%140 / 3,184
2×22.083.22
top 5.3%2,105 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed13.9119.75
top 5.9%830 / 15,683
3×3 Multi-Blind19 of 21 cubes · 53:28—
top 6.5%52 / 731
Square-111.5318.63
top 8.9%635 / 6,743
Megaminx1:09.451:20.15
top 15.3%1,041 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves37.33
top 17.4%385 / 2,040
5×5 blindfolded9:40.72—
top 20.3%40 / 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

Three Attempts Chicago 2022: 11.61Get to the Point 2022: 10.40Mt. Prospect Open 2022: 8.52Iowa Fall 2022: 10.29Naperville Winter B 2022: 7.10Everything in Evanston B 2023: 9.00UCSD Spring 2023: 9.14OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023: 8.66CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.77Naperville Summer 2023: 8.93Evanston Summer Side Events 2023: 8.55DeKalb Cubing Fall 2023: 7.68Evanston Fall Mini C 2023: 7.30Milwaukee Cubing Mania 2024: 8.47Naperville Winter 2024: 8.52UIUC Big Cubes Spring 2024: 8.38Countless Cubes Chicagoland B 2024: 8.40Chicago Area Twist Spring A 2024: 7.53Wisconsin Qualifier 2024: 6.85Ackerman Spring 2024: 7.66Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.95Cubing in Oak Creek 2024: 8.10DuPage Fall 2024: 7.72Naperville Winter 2025: 7.83Skewb on the Madison Snow 2025: 7.34IlliNxNois Spring 2025: 9.36South Bend Scramble 2025: 7.93Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.89CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 7.27Machesney Park Fall 2025: 9.08Naperville Gray Skies 2026: 8.13Machesney Park Spring 2026: 7.33CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 7.25Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.046.8511.6118 Jun 20222 Jul 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-15 3×3 blindfolded single — 19 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
  • A sub-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.