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Caden Holliday

3×3 · top 9.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025HOLL03

Caden Holliday has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.52, set at New Braunfels Comal Cubing Classic 2026, puts him in the top 9.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,931st in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since March 2025, he has put 109 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.78 in March 2025 to 10.52, a 49% improvement. Caden has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.52
signature single · New Braunfels Comal Cubing Classic 2026
109
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.5213.04
top 9.0%4,931 / 59,724
2×23.205.10
top 16.6%6,516 / 40,951
4×453.641:00.76
top 29.1%4,550 / 19,072
Pyraminx8.3213.05
top 39.0%11,138 / 28,708
5×52:03.982:16.40
top 51.7%4,355 / 9,401
Skewb12.8017.88
top 69.8%13,122 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed1:07.08
early days — 2 solves13,314 / 15,683

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

Cubing Simple in Temple 2025: 20.78Corpus Christi Summer 2025: 15.15San Antonio Fall 2025: 13.19New Braunfels Comal Cubing Classic 2026: 10.5210.5220.7816 Mar 20251 Feb 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.