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Cole Campbell

3×3 blindfolded · top 2.1% of 12,178 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018CAMP15

Cole Campbell has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 22.41, set at Solve Well in Wellington 2025, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in New Zealand. Until November 2014, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since June 2018, he has put 758 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.93 in June 2018 to 9.86, a 70% improvement. Cole has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 2.1% of 12,178 all-time
22.41
signature single · Solve Well in Wellington 2025
758
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×3 blindfolded22.4135.44
top 2.1%5 / 86
3×3 Multi-Blind25 of 25 cubes · 55:25—
top 2.4%3 / 49
2×21.584.02
top 2.5%74 / 1,615
4×434.2741.68
top 6.1%56 / 722
3×39.8611.61
top 7.1%158 / 2,095
Pyraminx4.065.92
top 8.0%128 / 1,141
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves30.00
top 9.9%18 / 111
3×3 one-handed16.0723.09
top 10.4%68 / 600
5×51:12.401:18.97
top 13.4%48 / 355
Megaminx1:12.801:21.35
top 17.3%70 / 283
6×62:18.242:23.72
top 19.6%38 / 149
4×4 blindfolded4:41.64—
top 19.7%5 / 23
Skewb5.257.39
top 20.1%161 / 666
7×73:32.203:49.35
top 20.5%29 / 126
5×5 blindfolded11:41.00—
early days — 1 solve5 / 11
Clock13.2821.10
top 40.8%144 / 303
Square-131.8235.15
top 52.9%146 / 251

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

SNZ Northern 2018: 32.93Auckland Spring 2018: 18.82New Zealand Nationals 2018: 14.13NxNZ 2019: 11.22Koalafication Palmy 2019: 11.43Oceania 10th Anniversary 2019: 10.93Wellington Mind Games 2020: 10.80Welcome Back Wellington 2020: 11.26New Zealand Nationals 2020: 10.21A New Year in Auckland 2021: 11.37Wellington Mind Games 2021: 10.19Palmerston North 2021: 10.20NZ North Island Championship 2021: 9.86Palmerston North 2022: 11.11Crazy Cubing in Christchurch 2025: 10.97NZ North Island Championship 2025: 10.85Solve Well in Wellington 2025: 10.639.8632.9323 Jun 201823 Aug 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 blindfolded single — 166 people have one; it is 2.41 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.