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Brenton Ryba

3×3 · top 69.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2007 · 2007RYBA01

Brenton Ryba has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 34.54, set at Spokane Summer 2022, puts him in the top 69.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 42,215th in the United States. Across 13 competitions since May 2007, he has put 111 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 3:45.49 in May 2007 to 34.54, an 85% improvement. Brenton has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 69.8% of 284,439 all-time
34.54
signature single · Spokane Summer 2022
111
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×334.5447.06
top 69.8%42,215 / 59,724
2×212.4422.70
top 85.6%35,544 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed1:31.722:23.28
top 95.1%14,770 / 15,683
Skewb34.841:37.88
top 98.3%18,736 / 18,907

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

San Diego competition 2007: 3:45.49UCSD competition 2008: 59.31Discovery Science Center competition 2008: 50.28San Diego Open 2008: 1:00.07Discovery Science Center 10th Anniversary 2008: 40.83Discovery Science Center competition 2009: 49.86Let's Try Again Spokane 2022: 48.01Spokane Summer 2022: 34.54Spokane Fall 2022: 38.66Spokane Spring 2024: 43.72Spokane Winter 2025: 41.56North Idaho Newcomers 2025: 47.04CdA Cube Clash 2025: 48.4734.543:45.4926 May 200718 Oct 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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 4.54 away.
  • A sub-12 2×2 single — 157,609 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.