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Caleb Brownlie

3×3 · top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016BROW02

Caleb Brownlie has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.63, set at Arizona Championship 2025, puts him in the top 9.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,106th in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since March 2016, he has put 359 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.39 in March 2016 to 10.63, a 53% improvement. Caleb has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.63
signature single · Arizona Championship 2025
359
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.6313.44
top 9.4%5,106 / 59,724
Skewb4.5512.99
top 14.8%2,321 / 18,907
4×448.6252.87
top 22.9%3,484 / 19,072
2×23.746.07
top 23.2%9,103 / 40,951
Pyraminx6.5810.39
top 24.5%6,675 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed24.0226.81
top 31.5%4,097 / 15,683
5×51:36.861:43.93
top 33.0%2,613 / 9,401
Megaminx1:40.861:47.19
top 35.1%2,502 / 7,841
6×63:01.433:06.43
top 41.7%1,535 / 4,196
Square-126.2730.24
top 42.0%2,725 / 6,743
7×75:42.865:54.90
top 63.4%1,902 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded5:41.46
early days — 2 solves1,751 / 2,092

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

AZCubing Winter 2016: 22.39AZCubing Summer 2016: 19.20AZCubing Winter 2017: 15.97AZCubing Summer 2017: 16.81AZCubing Hamilton Fall 2017: 16.54AZCubing Hamilton Winter 2018: 13.82AZCubing Spring 2019: 11.69AZCubing Summer 2019: 12.12You Only Need a 3x3 AZ 2023: 12.26Prescott Cubing Winter 2024: 12.40Arizona Championship 2025: 10.6310.6322.395 Mar 201610 May 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.

  • Ivan Vanek — met in 82 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Dan Tran — met in 75 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Caleb Hoffman — met in 53 rounds, finished ahead twice

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.