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Cole Dugger

3×3 · top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022DUGG04

Cole Dugger has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.98, set at DFW Cubing Summer 2025, puts him in the top 0.47% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 312th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 42 competitions since October 2022, he has put 2,150 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.05 in October 2022 to 5.98, a 46% improvement. Cole has entered 42 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.47% of 284,439 all-time
5.98
signature single · DFW Cubing Summer 2025
2,150
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.988.80
top 0.47%312 / 59,724
Square-17.169.61
top 2.0%152 / 6,743
Pyraminx2.795.42
top 3.0%796 / 28,708
2×21.773.38
top 3.4%1,339 / 40,951
4×431.5537.87
top 3.8%616 / 19,072
Skewb3.086.38
top 5.4%829 / 18,907
5×51:07.611:15.28
top 10.0%785 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed18.9824.42
top 17.7%2,288 / 15,683
Clock8.9711.51
top 19.8%1,516 / 8,927
6×62:19.322:28.83
top 20.1%707 / 4,196
7×73:53.374:30.58
top 28.3%792 / 3,184
Megaminx1:33.551:43.63
top 30.4%2,131 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves41.33
top 40.9%879 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded5:35.69—
early days — 1 solve1,730 / 2,092

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 Cubing Fall 2022: 11.05Cube With Intention in Denton 2022: 9.75MYHM Puzzling in Plano 2023: 10.23DFW Cubing Fall 2023: 9.50DFW Winter Variation 2024: 9.19DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 9.02DFW Megacomp 2024: 9.35DFW Eclipse Cubing 2024: 8.03DFW Cubing Spring 2024: 8.42DFW Cubing Summer 2024: 8.95Richardson Cubing Afternoon 2024: 8.81CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 7.53DFW Back to School 2024: 7.94Cube More in Ardmore 2024: 7.45DFW Cubing Fall 2024: 8.78Texas Championship 2024: 8.87Cube a Ton in Arlington 2024: 8.10Space City Winter TX 2025: 8.23DFW Cubing Winter 2025: 9.12Cube Against Cancer DFW 2025: 8.28DFW Cubing Spring 2025: 8.19DFW Qualifier 2025: 7.39DFW Cubing Summer 2025: 5.98Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.97DFW Back to School 2025: 8.37DFW Cubing Fall 2025: 7.84Cube On in Richardson 2025: 8.41Texas Championship 2025: 8.43DFW Cubing Winter 2026: 7.89DFW Favorites 2026: 7.29The Heart of Texas Spring 2026: 7.47DFW Cubing Spring 2026: 6.85Abilene Spring 2026: 7.25GAN Southern Championship 2026: 8.02Cubing at COTA 2026: 8.02DFW Cubing Summer 2026: 7.065.9811.0523 Oct 202229 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 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 1.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.