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Chris Hardwick

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since August 2003 · 2003HARD01

Chris Hardwick has been competing for 23 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 26 moves, set at DFW Mega Mental Breakdown 2025, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 149th in the United States. Across 68 competitions since August 2003, he has put 1,361 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.09 in August 2003 to 10.21, a 52% improvement. Chris has entered 68 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time
26 moves
signature single · DFW Mega Mental Breakdown 2025
1,361
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves33.00
top 6.2%149 / 2,040
3×310.2112.60
top 8.1%4,448 / 59,724
3×3 blindfolded1:12.331:29.59
top 16.9%325 / 2,092
4×4 blindfolded4:46.198:01.45
top 20.3%79 / 440
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 8 cubes · 52:17—
top 23.7%174 / 731
2×23.815.40
top 24.1%9,441 / 40,951
4×455.381:06.08
top 31.2%4,923 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed24.0834.04
top 31.7%4,115 / 15,683
5×5 blindfolded12:59.0018:47.00
top 33.1%66 / 218
Pyraminx7.7513.97
top 34.1%9,635 / 28,708
5×52:00.392:16.89
top 49.5%4,150 / 9,401
Megaminx2:23.692:42.08
top 58.2%4,374 / 7,841
Skewb10.8317.19
top 59.9%10,988 / 18,907
6×64:26.314:43.52
top 73.6%2,906 / 4,196
7×76:40.667:00.51
top 76.6%2,384 / 3,184
Clock25.7331.66
top 78.0%6,860 / 8,927
Square-11:33.522:43.69
top 95.9%6,506 / 6,743

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

World Rubik's Games Championship 2003: 21.09US Nationals 2004: 15.85Horace Mann Spring competition 2005: 13.78Caltech Dallas Summer competition 2005: 13.97Rubik's World Championship 2005: 12.87US Nationals 2006: 14.95World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 15.40Virginia Open 2007: 13.00Chattahoochee Spring competition 2008: 12.93Washington DC Open 2008: 13.43US Nationals and Open 2008: 13.31Decatur Open 2008: 12.59Chattahoochee Spring competition 2009: 14.27Horizons Open 2009: 13.46World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 12.19United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 14.59World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 12.41World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 11.98Virginia Open Spring 2014: 14.75Charlotte Open Fall 2014: 11.67Wellington Winter 2015: 13.56World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 12.27Wiscube 2nd Edition 2015: 12.81Clock N' Other Stuff 2016: 12.51Discovery Place 2016: 12.57Athens Fall Late Night 2016: 12.08Marietta Mystery 2016: 13.16Montfort Championship 2016: 10.35Athens Winter 2016: 13.58Americus Open 2017: 12.62All Aboard 2017: 11.44Classic City Shenanigans 2017: 12.51World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 13.11Classic City Summer 2017: 13.87Cobb Cubes 2017: 14.70Raleigh Rubik's Rally 2017: 10.98CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2018: 11.52Lion Pride 2018: 13.61CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 12.58Cobb Cubes Again 2018: 11.85Lion Pride 2019: 11.85WCA World Championship 2019: 13.81Florida 2020: 12.52Cubing Bulls 2022: 11.88Pegasus 2023: 11.33Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 11.24Cubing Knights IV 2023: 11.36Cubing Knights V 2023: 11.26Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.21Zephyr Cube Bash 2025: 13.93Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.6610.2121.0923 Aug 20032 Jul 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 0.21 away.
  • A sub-1:00 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,593 people have one; it is 12.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.