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Derek White

3×3 · top 0.11% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017WHIT01

Derek White has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.96, set at Winchester Weeknights V 2023, puts him in the top 0.11% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 75th in the United States. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 174 competitions since January 2017, he has put 7,999 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 46.46 in January 2017 to 4.96, an 89% improvement. Derek has entered 174 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.11% of 284,439 all-time
4.96
signature single · Winchester Weeknights V 2023
7,999
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×34.967.70
top 0.11%75 / 59,724
4×425.2729.39
top 0.77%125 / 19,072
2×21.122.25
top 0.82%340 / 40,951
Skewb2.163.48
top 1.8%260 / 18,907
5×551.901:02.88
top 2.3%182 / 9,401
Pyraminx2.573.80
top 2.4%631 / 28,708
Square-18.5212.06
top 3.7%280 / 6,743
Megaminx50.0855.64
top 5.1%365 / 7,841
Clock6.198.23
top 7.9%619 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed16.3321.65
top 11.0%1,441 / 15,683
6×62:08.932:14.48
top 14.8%534 / 4,196
7×73:22.643:33.89
top 17.2%481 / 3,184

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

Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 46.46WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 34.40Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 20.10Quabbin Spring 2017: 33.23Midcoast Cubing 2017: 26.82Sharon Summer 2017: 19.25WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017: 15.55Weston Fall 2017: 16.12Cubing with the Viking 2017: 13.72Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 15.83Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 15.75BA Cube Fest 2018: 14.24WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 12.88Midcoast Cubing 2018: 10.75BU Spring 2018: 12.61CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 10.75Quizzical Quabbin Qualifier 2018: 10.37CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.78Blue Cubed 2018: 10.33Connect Community 2018: 9.96MIT Fall 2018: 9.87BA Fall Cube Fest 2018: 9.43The Battle of Lexington 2018: 9.01Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 9.17Boston University Winter 2019: 9.85Salem Cube Trials 2019: 9.24Burke Mountain Cubing 2019: 9.42The Battle of Lexington 2019: 9.33STMHS Spring 2019: 9.11Cubing in Cambridge 2019: 8.31Massachusetts Championship 2019: 8.63CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.91Quabbin Summer 2019: 7.66Providence Fall 2019: 7.56Empire State Fall 2019: 8.65Burke Mountain Fall 2019: 8.29BA Four 2019: 8.25MIT Winter 2020: 8.05Constitution State Winter 2020: 8.01Cubing with the Viking 2020: 8.05Empire State Summer A 2021: 8.23Maine Spring 2022: 7.78Saint John's Spring 2022: 7.78Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022: 6.30CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 6.53Granite State 2022: 8.16Cubing in Beverly 2022: 7.48Amherst Open 2022: 6.78Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 7.52Maine Fall 2022: 6.17Naticube 2022: 8.51Burke Mountain Cubing 2022: 7.46Loon Cubikon 2022: 7.30Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 6.94Puzzling in Providence 2023: 7.28Mum's the Word 2023: 7.00Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023: 7.30Garden City Winter 2023: 7.21Northampton Winter A 2023: 7.27Maine Spring 2023: 6.83Saint John's Scramble 2023: 7.33Panthers Cube Day 2023: 6.70Middleboro Cubikon 2023: 7.68New Hampshire Spring 2023: 7.20Cubehenge 2023: 7.37CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 7.15Winchester Weeknights I 2023: 7.04Return to Quabbin 2023: 7.31Silver City Side Events 2023: 7.29Quick in Quincy 2023: 7.35CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.45Winchester Weeknights IV 2023: 7.36Be Quick in Brunswick 2023: 6.27Winchester Weeknights V 2023: 4.96Brookline Favorites 2023: 7.45Elm City Kubikon 2023: 6.56South Deerfield Side Events 2023: 7.50CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 7.31Northampton Fall A 2023: 6.26Vermont Cubikon 2023: 7.22Loon Cubikon 2023: 7.82Winchester Wind Down 2023: 7.04New York New Year 2024: 8.16The Battle of Lexington 2024: 7.56WPI Winter 2024: 7.85Cardinal Cube Day 2024: 7.05The Battle of Concord 2024: 6.51Quabbin Newcomers 2024: 7.26Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 7.35River Hawk Cubikon 2024: 7.64Upper Valley Cube Day 2024: 6.95Salem Cubikon 2024: 7.22New Hampshire Summer 2024: 7.54Lexington Weeknights I 2024: 7.95Apple Cider Open MA 2024: 7.09Wakefield MA Summer 2024: 7.39Lexington Weeknights II 2024: 8.27Lexington Weeknights III 2024: 7.39Lexington Weeknights IV 2024: 8.49CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 7.44Brookline Favorites 2024: 7.23Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 7.76QuabbiNxN Fall 2024: 7.48Skowhegan Spookfest 2024: 7.71Loon Cubikon 2024: 5.79Jay Peak Cubikon 2024: 7.17Wakefield Winter 2024: 8.29A Friday in Ashfield 2024: 8.69Cubing at the Course CT 2025: 7.49The Battle of Lexington 2025: 7.49Cubing at Hampton Beach 2025: 7.04Fall River Cubikon 2025: 6.52Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 7.01Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 6.72Orono Open 2025: 5.70Vermont Newcomers 2025: 7.50Skowhegan Cubikon 2025: 8.41The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 6.94WPI Spring 2025: 7.14FMC and More Maine 2025: 7.59Salem Cubikon 2025: 8.10Lexington Weeknights I 2025: 8.32Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 7.57Campobello Favorites 2025: 8.33Lubec Cubec 2025: 7.77Lexington Weeknights II 2025: 8.61Upper Valley Cube Day 2025: 7.74Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.12Mystic Cubikon 2025: 7.42Connecticut Championship 2025: 7.60CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 7.35Ashfield Summer NxN 2025: 7.80Burlington Cube Day 2025: 7.19Brookline Favorites III 2025: 7.51Fitchburg Fall 2025: 5.99Great North Woods 2025: 7.71Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2025: 7.84Farming-a-ton of Solves ME 2025: 7.52Saint Mike's Cube Fest VT 2025: 6.38Loon Cubikon NH 2025: 7.46New Hampshire Championship 2025: 8.19Burke Mountain Cubikon 2025: 7.45Ipswich Fall 2025: 8.13Ogunquit Winter 2025: 7.28New York New Year 2025: 7.83Berkshires Cube Day at BART 2026: 7.70The Battle of Concord MA 2026: 7.58Brown Cubing Day 2026: 6.78UMass Spring 2026: 6.88Saint Mikes Winter VT 2026: 6.85Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026: 6.48Wakefield MA Spring 2026: 7.65Skowhegan Puzzlefest 2026: 7.54WPI Spring 2026: 7.05Championnat Québécois 2026: 7.57UnOrono-thodox Blocks 2026: 9.04Quabbin Spring 2026: 7.94Wells Dual 2026: 7.08Saint John's Summer 2026: 7.33Maine Open 2026: 7.72Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.26Run & Cube 5K Cubikon NH 2026: 8.08Mystic Cubikon 2026: 7.14Hampton Beach Summer 2026: 6.60Star City ME Summer 2026: 7.37Brookline Favorites IV 2026: 7.384.9646.4628 Jan 201729 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.