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Elijah T. Crouse

3×3 · top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2024 · 2024CROU03

Elijah T. Crouse has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.35, set at Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,180th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since October 2024, he has put 460 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.53 in October 2024 to 9.35, a 50% improvement. Elijah has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.35
signature single · Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026
460
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.3512.44
top 5.7%3,180 / 59,724
Clock6.1611.05
top 7.8%609 / 8,927
2×22.725.14
top 11.1%4,396 / 40,951
4×450.341:01.11
top 25.1%3,858 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed22.0629.97
top 26.2%3,382 / 15,683
Pyraminx7.2111.27
top 29.6%8,201 / 28,708
Skewb6.8810.71
top 32.7%5,474 / 18,907
Square-142.7556.45
top 68.6%4,516 / 6,743
5×52:59.06—
top 77.8%7,025 / 9,401

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

CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 18.53Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024: 15.15NCSU Wolfpack 2024: 17.89Charlotte Winter 2025: 13.51Gobbler Cube Day Spring at VT 2025: 13.04North Carolina Championship 2025: 13.48Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 14.05Virginia Championship 2025: 11.09Concord Summer 2025: 11.65NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 10.19Wrightsville Beach Bash 2026: 11.42NxN Nonsense NC 2026: 14.20NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026: 11.18Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026: 9.35Apex Algs Again 2026: 12.27RVA Spring 2026: 10.91Colonial Cube Clash VA 2026: 10.53Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 10.009.3518.5312 Oct 20242 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.35 away.
  • A sub-6 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.