People · United States
Catherine Allan
3×3 · top 5.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018ALLA03
Catherine Allan has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.05, set at Space City Fall TX 2025, puts her in the top 5.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,784th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since June 2018, she has put 377 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 32.15 in June 2018 to 9.05, a 72% improvement. Catherine has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.05 | 12.81 | top 5.0% | 2,784 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 4.99 | 7.36 | top 18.0% | 2,858 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.10 | 27.39 | top 20.7% | 2,654 / 15,683 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.11 | 8.08 | top 20.8% | 5,601 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 3.72 | 4.69 | top 23.0% | 9,012 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 50.29 | 57.66 | top 25.1% | 3,845 / 19,072 | |
| Square-1 | 42.29 | 1:06.33 | top 68.1% | 4,479 / 6,743 | |
| 5×5 | 2:50.43 | — | early days — 1 solve | 6,667 / 9,401 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 19 Oct 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.05 at Space City Fall TX 2025.
- 19 Oct 2025Three personal bests in one day at Space City Fall TX 2025.
- 22 Jun 2023Four personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023.
- 6 Aug 2022Four personal bests in one day at BeCubed Summer 2022.
- 18 May 2019First sub-15 3×3: 14.88 at Lone Star Cubing 2019.
- 4 Jan 2019First sub-20 3×3: 16.65 at Southeast Texas Winter 2019.
Competitions
- Space City Fall TX 2025 · 19 Oct 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Space City Winter 2024 · 6 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Space City Summer 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023 · 22 Jun 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- BeCubed Summer 2022 · 6 Aug 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Houston Winter 2020 · 25 Jan 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Waco Cube Assembly 2019 · 14 Sep 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Texas Out of School 2019 · 15 Jun 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019 · 1 Jun 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Lone Star Cubing 2019 · 18 May 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Ready For Summer Frisco 2019 · 11 May 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Southeast Texas Winter 2019 · 4 Jan 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- DFW Cubing Fiesta September 2018 · 22 Sep 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- DFW Cubing Fiesta August 2018 · 11 Aug 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- DFW Cubing Fiesta June 2018 · 30 Jun 2018
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 her.
- Matt Lee — met in 52 rounds, never finished ahead
- Dylan Miller — met in 51 rounds, finished ahead once
- Riley Norrid — met in 50 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.05 away.
- A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
Targets move as she improves.