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Gabriel Golson

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024GOLS02

Gabriel Golson has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.84, set at Marietta Monday Mini III 2026, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 721st in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since May 2024, he has put 361 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.64 in May 2024 to 6.84, a 56% improvement. Gabriel has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.84
signature single · Marietta Monday Mini III 2026
361
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.848.10
top 1.2%721 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.174.45
top 4.2%1,119 / 28,708
2×22.042.96
top 5.0%2,003 / 40,951
4×436.9640.20
top 8.6%1,300 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed16.0217.69
top 10.3%1,358 / 15,683
Clock9.8710.59
top 24.4%1,877 / 8,927
5×51:47.242:00.90
top 40.7%3,287 / 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

Alabama Championship 2024: 15.64T-Town Showdown AL 2024: 11.84Coosa Cubing Clash 2024: 9.74The Battle of Lexington 2025: 8.62Cubing on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 9.92Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025: 8.31Fort Payne Summer 2025: 7.59Atlanta Algs at AIS Autumn 2025: 8.90Coosa Cubing Clash 2025: 7.08Marietta Monday Mini III 2026: 6.84GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2026: 7.44Scenic City Summer TN 2026: 8.13Fort Payne Summer 2026: 7.086.8415.6411 May 202422 Aug 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.17 away.

Targets move as he improves.