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Eli Jay

3×3 · top 0.15% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2014 · 2014JAYE01

Eli Jay has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.16, set at Cambridge Side Events Winter 2023, puts him in the top 0.15% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in the United Kingdom. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 81 competitions since April 2014, he has put 5,926 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.77 in April 2014 to 5.16, a 77% improvement. Eli has entered 81 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.15% of 284,439 all-time
5.16
signature single · Cambridge Side Events Winter 2023
5,926
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×35.167.19
top 0.15%16 / 6,689
4×422.1327.68
top 0.2%6 / 2,071
5×543.4746.31
top 0.49%9 / 1,151
7×71:59.832:05.69
top 0.58%4 / 459
6×61:23.791:28.57
top 0.99%6 / 548
3×3 Fewest Moves20 moves28.33
top 1.0%8 / 372
Skewb1.852.71
top 1.0%24 / 2,421
2×21.202.36
top 1.0%87 / 4,895
Megaminx38.0144.24
top 1.2%19 / 966
Pyraminx2.053.35
top 1.2%49 / 3,656
3×3 one-handed11.1114.78
top 1.9%39 / 1,851
Square-110.0513.10
top 6.2%58 / 778
3×3 blindfolded53.181:36.67
top 10.9%55 / 311
Clock8.3410.27
top 16.8%240 / 1,232
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 7 cubes · 41:15—
top 37.7%64 / 126

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

Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 22.77ABHC 2014: 17.11Cuthberts Open 2014: 16.66UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 15.16Harrow Spring 2015: 14.42Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 14.50Welwyn Garden City 2015: 13.04August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 11.03Cuthberts Open 2015: 10.07UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 11.32Manchester Open 2016: 10.01Exeter Open 2016: 9.87North London Open 2016: 9.63Guildford Open 2016: 9.90UK Championship 2016: 10.24Birmingham Open 2016: 9.98Manchester Open 2017: 8.61Peterborough Open 2017: 9.57Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 8.59Crawley Open 2017: 9.89London Open 2017: 9.46World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 7.65August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 7.02Guildford Open 2017: 8.85UK Championship 2017: 6.35Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 7.60Welsh Open 2018: 7.58Manchester Open 2018: 7.85High Wycombe Open 2018: 7.55Hastings Open 2018: 7.31Peterborough Open 2018: 7.99WCA European Championship 2018: 7.78Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 7.89UK Championship 2018: 8.19Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 7.32Cambridge Open 2018: 7.20Manchester Open 2019: 6.98Welsh Open 2019: 6.79British Summer Open 2019: 8.12Leeds Open 2019: 7.29German Nationals 2019: 7.63August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 6.78Nordic Championship 2019: 8.16UK Championship 2019: 7.91Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 7.44Guildford Open 2020: 6.84Manchester Open 2020: 7.45Wakefield Open 2022: 7.29Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 5.56Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 6.59Lincoln Summer 2022: 6.26August Bank Holiday Cheltenham 2022: 6.21Wakefield Autumn 2022: 6.55Stevenage Autumn A 2022: 6.87Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 7.08Cambridge Side Events Winter 2023: 5.16Stevenage July 2023: 6.58Mind Sports Olympiad Cubing 2023: 6.54August Bank Holiday Manchester 2023: 6.92Stevenage September 2023: 5.85Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 7.29Wiltshire March 2024: 6.21Chichester Summer 2024: 6.81Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 7.66Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 6.91Stevenage January 2025: 6.76Peterborough Odd Day 2025: 5.68Stevenage June 2025: 6.99Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 6.68Manchester Cubing League - First 2026: 7.70Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 6.665.1622.775 Apr 201428 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 0.16 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 2.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.