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Cory Yurkovic

3×3 · top 0.63% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016YURK01

Cory Yurkovic has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.23, set at NxNything Goes Bloomsburg 2025, puts him in the top 0.63% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 420th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since June 2016, he has put 1,623 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.59 in September 2016 to 6.23, a 66% improvement. Cory has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.63% of 284,439 all-time
6.23
signature single · NxNything Goes Bloomsburg 2025
1,623
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.238.05
top 0.63%420 / 59,724
Skewb1.743.10
top 0.81%129 / 18,907
2×21.352.22
top 1.5%619 / 40,951
4×427.8629.90
top 1.7%286 / 19,072
Pyraminx2.393.88
top 1.9%507 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed11.0915.38
top 1.9%309 / 15,683
5×553.3657.96
top 2.8%223 / 9,401
6×61:36.371:42.14
top 3.2%116 / 4,196
Square-18.2110.25
top 3.4%245 / 6,743
Megaminx48.9955.32
top 4.7%333 / 7,841
7×72:35.502:48.83
top 4.7%123 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves41.67
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
Clock12.6713.63
top 38.2%3,021 / 8,927

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

New York City Summer 2016: 18.59Big Cube Bash 2017: 11.69Princeton Fall 2017: 10.26UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 9.21Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 8.37Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 9.55No Place For DNF Spring 2018: 8.83Lower Moreland Spring 2018: 7.84North Plainfield Open 2018: 8.73New Hope Open Spring 2018: 9.24First State 2018: 9.05CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 9.14Pennsylvania 2018: 8.42Princeton Fall 2018: 6.60Lower Moreland Fall 2018: 8.16Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 7.71New Hope Open Winter 2019: 7.81Princeton Winter 2019: 7.85CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 7.11Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 7.07Ridge Cubing 2019: 7.30George School Open 2019: 8.88Arcadia Summer 2019: 7.38CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 7.46Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 8.15No Place For DNF Fall 2019: 7.88Princeton Winter 2020: 8.36Skewbadelphia Winter 2020: 7.85East Brunswick Open 2022: 7.50Cumberland County Fall 2024: 6.44Tipping Point Bloomsburg 2025: 7.54King of Prussia Spring 2025: 6.98NxNything Goes Bloomsburg 2025: 6.236.2318.5910 Sep 201620 Sep 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.

  • AJ Kamal — met in 280 rounds, finished ahead 105 times
  • Livia Kleiner — met in 246 rounds, finished ahead 82 times
  • Dana Yi — met in 188 rounds, finished ahead 53 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as he improves.