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Charlie Best

3×3 · top 34.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024BEST01

Charlie Best has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.14, set at Minnesota Newcomer Sunday 2025, puts him in the top 34.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 19,253rd in the United States. Across 3 competitions since February 2024, he has put 52 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Charlie has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 34.5% of 284,439 all-time
18.14
signature single · Minnesota Newcomer Sunday 2025
52
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×318.1421.14
top 34.5%19,253 / 59,724
Pyraminx8.1415.44
top 37.4%10,631 / 28,708
2×26.036.75
top 51.2%20,852 / 40,951
Clock26.31
early days — 3 solves6,973 / 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

Elite in Eagan 2024: 19.49Minnesota Newcomer Sunday 2025: 18.14Minnesota Cube Melt 2025: 19.7718.1419.7711 Feb 202427 Apr 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.

  • Lisa Kucala — met in 11 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
  • Kaius Young — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Joseph Ong — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.14 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.