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Freddie Swain

3×3 · top 33.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022SWAI02

Freddie Swain has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.82, set at Houston Back to School 2025, puts him in the top 33.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18,657th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since August 2022, he has put 88 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.41 in August 2022 to 17.82, a 39% improvement. Freddie has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 33.6% of 284,439 all-time
17.82
signature single · Houston Back to School 2025
88
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×317.8223.46
top 33.6%18,657 / 59,724
2×26.497.85
top 55.9%22,850 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed49.6054.29
top 76.4%11,133 / 15,683
4×41:56.46
top 80.0%14,846 / 19,072
Pyraminx16.4719.61
top 86.4%25,452 / 28,708
5×53:56.86
early days — 3 solves8,624 / 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

DFW Cubing Summer 2022: 29.41Houston Fall 2022: 23.74Cedar Park Winter 2023: 30.04Cube Against Cancer Texas 2024: 20.85Brazos Cubing Fall 2024: 20.51Houston Back to School 2025: 17.8217.8230.0414 Aug 20229 Aug 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.82 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.