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Eli Kirk

Skewb · top 0.34% of 73,281 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017KIRK01

Eli Kirk has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.42, set at Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025, puts him in the top 0.34% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 56th in the United States. Until October 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 63 competitions since January 2017, he has put 2,573 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.93 in January 2017 to 6.76, a 58% improvement. Eli has entered 63 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.34% of 73,281 all-time
1.42
signature single · Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025
2,573
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Skewb1.422.81
top 0.34%56 / 18,907
3×36.769.07
top 1.1%680 / 59,724
Megaminx39.7146.45
top 1.5%100 / 7,841
2×21.472.21
top 2.0%807 / 40,951
4×429.2336.13
top 2.4%389 / 19,072
Pyraminx3.104.56
top 4.0%1,060 / 28,708
Clock5.346.61
top 5.3%416 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed14.6622.98
top 7.4%996 / 15,683
Square-113.0016.62
top 11.9%825 / 6,743
5×51:19.511:25.11
top 18.7%1,457 / 9,401
6×62:49.022:57.01
top 35.6%1,280 / 4,196
7×74:47.535:11.88
top 47.0%1,368 / 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

Vancouver Open Winter 2017: 15.93Puget Sound Winter 2017: 16.91Northwest Championships 2017: 13.53Puget Sound Fall 2017: 12.67Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017: 14.56Puget Sound Valentine 2018: 13.73CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 11.78SnoCo Fall 2018: 10.15SnoCo Feet Fest 2019: 9.30Washington Championship 2020: 8.84Central Washington Winter 2020: 9.82SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021: 8.74Let's Try Again Spokane 2022: 8.45Central Washington Spring 2022: 8.93School's Out PLU 2022: 8.20SnoCo Favorites 2022: 8.48SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022: 9.07Lynnwood Winter 2023: 7.99Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 8.78Central Washington Evens 2023: 9.09Welcome to Olympia 2023: 9.08Rose City 2023: 8.40Kent Spring 2023: 8.58SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 8.37Spokane Summer 2023: 8.00Kent Summer 2023: 7.67Lakewood Fall 2023: 9.10Odd Olympia 2023: 7.46SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 9.21Spokane Winter 2023: 9.27Canada's Best in the West 2024: 9.08Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 8.64Kenmore Mini C 2024: 7.73Couve Cubing Spring 2024: 8.12Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 7.67Olympia Classic 2024: 8.16Kent Spring 2024: 8.67Bellingham Spring 2024: 9.53Husky Pride Seattle 2024: 9.48CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 8.65Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.46Tacoma Summer 2024: 8.98Kent Summer 2024: 9.06Bellingham Fall 2024: 7.74Olympia Fall 2024: 9.34Lakewood Fall 2024: 8.00Couve Cubing Fall 2024: 8.27Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024: 8.41Tacoma Winter 2025: 7.98Lakewood Newcomers 2025: 8.17Central Washington Evens 2025: 8.36Kent Spring 2025: 6.76Warm Up Seattle 2025: 7.98Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.35Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025: 7.84Kent Fall 2025: 9.09North Sound Spring 2026: 7.21Lakewood Spring 2026: 8.25Dawgs at Denny UW 2026: 8.29Kent Spring 2026: 8.48Seattle Summer 2026: 8.27Rose City OR 2026: 8.92Northwest Championship 2026: 8.316.7616.917 Jan 201721 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.

  • Sameer Aggarwal — met in 344 rounds, finished ahead 57 times
  • Ash Black — met in 312 rounds, finished ahead 38 times
  • Max Siauw — met in 297 rounds, finished ahead 41 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.