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Colby Joson

3×3 · top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2024 · 2024JOSO01

Colby Joson has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.51, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025, puts him in the top 3.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,117th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since July 2024, he has put 822 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 10 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.47 in July 2024 to 8.51, a 51% improvement. Colby has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.51
signature single · CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025
822
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.519.79
top 3.8%2,117 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.615.74
top 5.9%1,521 / 28,708
4×435.3443.01
top 7.0%1,086 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed14.7818.31
top 7.7%1,021 / 15,683
2×22.373.46
top 7.7%3,031 / 40,951
Square-111.8717.85
top 9.6%676 / 6,743
Megaminx1:02.721:16.06
top 11.4%767 / 7,841
5×51:13.401:22.17
top 14.1%1,079 / 9,401
Skewb4.715.75
top 16.0%2,518 / 18,907
Clock8.6110.22
top 18.0%1,383 / 8,927
7×74:30.04—
top 41.1%1,172 / 3,184
6×63:09.053:18.01
top 45.2%1,667 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves—
early days — 2 solves1,364 / 2,040

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

Minnesota Warm Up 2024: 17.47CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 13.06Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024: 12.77Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 10.70Happy Valley Fall PA 2024: 11.00Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 12.77Cube Against Cancer Buffalo 2025: 11.54Front Royal Spring 2025: 10.99North Carolina Championship 2025: 10.69TJHSST Spring 2025: 10.27Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 10.40Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.81More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 9.98Virginia Championship 2025: 10.29CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.51ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 9.63Dockin and Clockin Dunkirk 2026: 9.16Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.74Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 9.408.5117.4713 Jul 202414 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.51 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.