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Gabe McBee

3×3 · top 5.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016MCBE02

Gabe McBee has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.31, set at Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024, puts him in the top 5.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,129th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since November 2016, he has put 1,016 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.19 in November 2016 to 9.31, a 67% improvement. Gabe has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.6% of 284,439 all-time
9.31
signature single · Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024
1,016
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.3111.72
top 5.6%3,129 / 59,724
2×22.153.25
top 5.8%2,333 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.906.18
top 7.2%1,833 / 28,708
Skewb3.688.25
top 8.8%1,355 / 18,907
Square-111.9119.95
top 9.7%683 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed19.5024.04
top 19.2%2,467 / 15,683
4×447.4253.63
top 21.4%3,245 / 19,072
5×51:36.801:52.38
top 32.9%2,610 / 9,401
Clock12.7615.35
top 38.6%3,058 / 8,927
Megaminx1:47.042:03.86
top 38.7%2,774 / 7,841
6×64:25.474:53.72
top 73.3%2,895 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves53 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,726 / 2,040
7×78:43.86—
early days — 2 solves2,992 / 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

PDX Cubing for Dougy 2016: 28.19Puget Sound Winter 2017: 20.81Rose City 2017: 15.37Northwest Championships 2017: 22.66Puget Sound Fall 2017: 13.68SnoCo Cubing Fall 2017: 15.19Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017: 16.45Puget Sound Valentine 2018: 18.65Central Washington Odds 2023: 10.94Bothell Spring Open 2023: 10.54Nanaimo Swing into Spring 2023: 9.37Welcome to Olympia 2023: 9.89Rose City 2023: 10.37Lakewood Spring 2023: 11.50Kent Spring 2023: 10.53Mill Creek 2023: 11.49Maltby Mega Special 2023: 13.37Kent Summer 2023: 12.10Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 9.49Lakewood Fall 2023: 12.53Odd Olympia 2023: 12.07UW or U Don't 2023: 10.96Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 9.31Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 11.26Olympia Classic 2024: 10.75Kent Spring 2024: 11.93CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 9.49Tacoma Summer 2024: 11.86Kent Summer 2024: 12.15Bellevue Cubing Afternoon - Highlands 2024: 11.30Lakewood Fall 2024: 11.02Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024: 11.10Tacoma Winter 2025: 12.23Central Washington Odds 2025: 11.72Warm Up Seattle 2025: 10.38Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 12.299.3128.1919 Nov 20163 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.31 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.