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Coles Plekon

Clock · top 5.9% of 32,048 all-time · competing since September 2025 · 2025PLEK01

Coles Plekon has been competing for a year. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 5.57, set at Longmont Open 2026, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 456th in the United States. Until December 2011, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since September 2025, he has put 198 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.45 in September 2025 to 10.49, a 63% improvement. Coles has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 5.9% of 32,048 all-time
5.57
signature single · Longmont Open 2026
198
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock5.577.18
top 5.9%456 / 8,927
3×310.4913.04
top 8.9%4,893 / 59,724
Pyraminx5.066.83
top 13.5%3,537 / 28,708
4×448.5258.08
top 22.8%3,459 / 19,072
2×23.844.29
top 24.4%9,576 / 40,951
Skewb6.379.82
top 28.7%4,708 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed37.2239.58
top 61.2%8,616 / 15,683

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

Colorado Cubing Weekend 2025: 28.45Oredigger Fall CO 2025: 17.38DeNxNver 2026: 12.35Vanderbilt Winter 2026: 13.73Pi Day Cubing CO 2026: 11.39Denver Mini 2026: 13.64Longmont Open 2026: 10.49Rocky Mountain Championship 2026: 11.5310.4928.456 Sep 202521 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 Clock single — 1,421 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.