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Elliott Ashe

3×3 · top 4.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017ASHE01

Elliott Ashe has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.59, set at Concordia Fall Foliage 2026, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,265th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since April 2017, he has put 988 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.78 in April 2017 to 8.59, a 57% improvement. Elliott has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 288,433 all-time
8.59
signature single · Concordia Fall Foliage 2026
988
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.5910.92
top 4.0%2,265 / 60,666
Pyraminx4.135.93
top 8.4%2,179 / 29,168
2×22.473.74
top 8.7%3,453 / 41,674
4×437.1439.37
top 8.9%1,361 / 19,354
5×51:06.191:11.28
top 9.2%732 / 9,537
6×62:00.642:07.30
top 11.3%406 / 4,262
7×73:09.643:24.77
top 13.2%367 / 3,236
Megaminx1:11.461:25.42
top 16.6%1,149 / 8,026
Clock9.4812.66
top 22.3%1,755 / 9,172
Skewb6.1910.60
top 27.3%4,509 / 19,164
3×3 one-handed22.5026.52
top 27.5%3,585 / 15,900
Square-131.1736.25
top 51.5%3,425 / 6,846

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

Rocket City 2017: 19.78Music City Fall 2017: 18.63Grind City 2018: 16.41Central Arkansas Summer 2018: 14.91Music City Speedsolving 2018: 15.98Grind City 2019: 13.20Music City Speedsolving 2019: 12.44Mississippi Capstone 2019: 13.09Starkvegas Spring 2022: 10.84Cowbell Cubing 2022: 10.71Bayou Big Cubes 2023: 9.25Going Fast in Franklin 2023: 10.24Red Wolf Cubing Arkansas 2024: 9.80TN Speedsolving Winter 2024: 9.93Bayou Big Cubes 2024: 9.86Mississippi Cubing Dawgs 2024: 11.25Arkansolve Fall 2024: 9.91Vanderbilt Winter 2025: 9.93Minxing in Memphis 2025: 9.66Omnicon & Cubes TN 2025: 10.35CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 9.42Concordia Fall Foliage 2026: 8.598.5919.788 Apr 201710 Oct 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 — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.