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Emma Kemp

3×3 · top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2019 · 2019KEMP04

Emma Kemp has been competing for 7 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.02, set at Winterpeg 2024, puts her in the top 2.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 284th in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since October 2019, she has put 531 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 11.97 in October 2019 to 8.02, a 33% improvement. Emma has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.02
signature single · Winterpeg 2024
531
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×38.029.44
top 2.8%284 / 10,392
Skewb4.205.56
top 12.3%260 / 2,907
2×22.913.87
top 13.2%877 / 7,173
4×441.7047.06
top 14.2%357 / 3,118
Pyraminx5.237.86
top 14.6%577 / 4,858
Square-114.6218.70
top 15.5%127 / 952
Clock8.619.95
top 18.0%149 / 1,029
5×51:22.031:31.59
top 20.7%243 / 1,499
3×3 one-handed20.5923.88
top 22.1%476 / 2,620
7×77:57.64
early days — 2 solves426 / 503

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

Winnipeg Open 2019: 11.97Cubetcha 2019: 12.34Winnipeg Open 2022: 9.87Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 9.48Winnipeg Open 2023: 8.23Canadian Championship 2023: 8.51Saskatchewan Open 2023: 8.93Winterpeg 2024: 8.02Queen City Cubing Regina 2024: 8.32The Battlefords: Cubers Strike Back 2024: 9.27Winnipeg Open 2024: 9.93Grand Forks 2024: 8.50Winnipeg Spring 2026: 8.53Carberry Open 2026: 8.338.0212.3419 Oct 201925 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as she improves.