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Brooks Murray

2×2 · top 23.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023MURR04

Brooks Murray has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.76, set at Cincinnati Open 2025, puts him in the top 23.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,207th in the United States. Across 9 competitions since May 2023, he has put 177 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.29 in May 2023 to 15.38, a 46% improvement. Brooks has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 23.5% of 186,767 all-time
3.76
signature single · Cincinnati Open 2025
177
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.767.37
top 23.5%9,207 / 40,951
3×315.3824.17
top 25.7%13,995 / 59,724
Pyraminx8.4210.55
top 39.9%11,399 / 28,708
Skewb11.0113.51
top 60.9%11,197 / 18,907
4×41:30.74
top 64.1%11,251 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed51.28
top 77.9%11,426 / 15,683
Clock44.20
early days — 2 solves8,537 / 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

Ohio State Spring First-Timers A 2023: 28.29The Blantucky Derby 2023: 36.19Mason Cube Challenge 2023: 26.75Cincinnati Speed Solving 2024: 24.19Northern Kentucky 2024: 24.68CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 15.38Swoop in and Solve Oxford 2024: 21.56Cincinnati Speed Solving 2025: 20.11Cincinnati Open 2025: 21.5915.3836.191 May 20239 Aug 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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.76 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.