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Chael Lumaban

Clock · top 5.0% of 32,048 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024LUMA02

Chael Lumaban has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 5.22, set at GAN Southern Championship 2026, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 397th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since August 2024, he has put 629 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.78 in August 2024 to 10.64, a 64% improvement. Chael has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 5.0% of 32,048 all-time
5.22
signature single · GAN Southern Championship 2026
629
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock5.226.47
top 5.0%397 / 8,927
3×310.6413.77
top 9.4%5,118 / 59,724
2×22.814.37
top 12.1%4,777 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.239.87
top 14.6%3,836 / 28,708
Skewb4.827.39
top 16.8%2,661 / 18,907
4×444.1353.39
top 17.2%2,617 / 19,072
5×51:25.191:32.49
top 23.4%1,814 / 9,401
Square-122.7739.66
top 34.2%2,224 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed26.6433.10
top 38.4%5,107 / 15,683
6×63:09.573:09.83
top 45.5%1,680 / 4,196
7×75:03.145:11.97
top 51.5%1,501 / 3,184
Megaminx2:21.26—
top 57.0%4,290 / 7,841

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

DFW Back to School 2024: 29.78Texas Championship 2024: 21.10DFW Cubing Winter 2025: 17.61Cubing Simple in Temple 2025: 15.28Austin Spring Open 2025: 13.53Cube More in Taylor 2025: 14.80Corpus Christi Summer 2025: 14.40CubingUSA Southern Championship 2025: 13.87Texas Championship 2025: 13.69New Braunfels Comal Cubing Classic 2026: 12.53Round Rock Splash & Solve 2026: 12.49GAN Southern Championship 2026: 10.64Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 13.55New Braunfels Tube & Twist 2026: 12.4010.6429.7825 Aug 20242 Aug 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-5 Clock single — 1,421 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.