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Brian Brooks

3×3 · top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2008 · 2008SEAR02

Brian Brooks has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.43, set at Texas Championship 2024, puts him in the top 3.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,034th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since November 2008, he has put 1,062 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 43.74 in November 2008 to 8.43, an 81% improvement. Brian has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.43
signature single · Texas Championship 2024
1,062
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.4311.07
top 3.6%2,034 / 59,724
2×23.034.86
top 14.6%5,719 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.859.85
top 18.9%5,026 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed22.1228.37
top 26.4%3,410 / 15,683
Skewb10.1516.34
top 55.8%10,147 / 18,907
4×41:21.502:29.75
top 57.2%9,852 / 19,072
Clock31.2835.03
top 85.9%7,642 / 8,927

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

Austin Open 2008: 43.74Austin Spring 2009: 32.81French Open 2009: 26.27Denver Open 2009: 21.56Dallas Open 2009: 25.19US Nationals 2009: 24.47Austin Fall competition 2009: 23.16South Texas Open 2010: 20.18MIT Spring 2010: 20.86United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 18.09Small Cubes Open 2010: 15.69Mantua Spring 2011: 18.05Dallas Open 2011: 18.40United States National Championships 2011: 20.19Hillsdale Winter 2012: 20.31United States National Championships 2012: 23.68Hillsdale Winter 2013: 23.84Rice University 2014: 15.12Oklahoma Open 2014: 13.56Austin Cubing Limits 2015: 16.75SMA Winter 2015: 13.19Small Cubes Open 2015: 11.30Texas Two-Day Showdown 2015: 11.66World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 12.23Dallas Back to School 2015: 11.40AZCubing Fall 2015: 12.68HOOAH SMA 2015: 10.14Dallas Winter 2015: 11.22OKCubing 2016: 11.33AZCubing Winter 2016: 10.79Dallas Spring 2016: 9.80US Nationals 2016: 11.77Oklahoma Fall 2016: 10.46Dallas Fall 2016: 10.19South Texas Open 2017: 10.31World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.58South Texas Open 2018: 10.32You Better Belize It 2023: 9.22CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 10.83Corozal Cube Open 2023: 11.20Texas Championship 2024: 8.43Corpus Christi Summer 2025: 9.64Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.44Space City Fall TX 2025: 11.058.4343.741 Nov 200819 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.