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Elijah Franklin

3×3 · top 0.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2019 · 2019FRAN18

Elijah Franklin has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.18, set at Poway Summer Cubing 2023, puts him in the top 0.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 404th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since October 2019, he has put 858 official solves on the record across eleven 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 54.76 in October 2019 to 6.18, an 89% improvement. Elijah has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.6% of 284,439 all-time
6.18
signature single · Poway Summer Cubing 2023
858
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
3×36.188.58
top 0.6%404 / 59,724
2×21.862.75
top 3.9%1,537 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.086.64
top 8.1%2,062 / 28,708
4×448.751:03.09
top 23.1%3,515 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed22.0724.75
top 26.3%3,388 / 15,683
Skewb7.1212.07
top 34.6%5,848 / 18,907
5×52:08.563:15.14
top 54.6%4,611 / 9,401
Clock23.4728.49
top 73.5%6,388 / 8,927
Square-155.65—
early days — 2 solves5,389 / 6,743
Megaminx3:28.66—
early days — 3 solves6,633 / 7,841
7×78:54.67—
early days — 1 solve3,019 / 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

Mudd Fall 2019: 54.76Grossmont Fall 2019: 32.07UCSD Winter 2020: 27.47Reno Winter 2020: 23.01Pikes Peak Returns A 2021: 9.41DeNxNver 2022: 10.80Northern Colorado Cubing 2022: 9.59San Diego Spring 2022: 9.65Geffen Spring 2022: 9.49Marshall Middle Slice 2022: 8.42Marshall Cubing September 2022: 8.40WCC Western Championship 2022: 9.15Circle City Supercharged 2022: 8.85Cozy Cubing Poway 2023: 7.59Oak Valley Winter A 2023: 9.51Marshall Cubing Spring 2023: 9.15Circle City Turbocharged 2023: 8.89UCSD Spring 2023: 8.78Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023: 8.47Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 10.21UCSD For Hemophilia 2023: 7.40Poway Summer Cubing 2023: 6.18Corona Summer 2023: 8.59UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 8.48UCSD Winter 2023: 9.13UCSD Winter 2024: 8.39Triton Tricubealon 2024: 9.22San Diego Newcomers 2024: 8.14Westview Cubing Favorites 2024: 8.32CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 8.49Super Duper San Diego 2024: 7.84SoCal Speedcubing at Super STEM Saturday 2025: 9.17UCSD Maybe 2025: 8.336.1854.765 Oct 201911 May 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.18 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.