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Gabriel Gowman

2×2 · top 0.16% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022GOWM01

Gabriel Gowman has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.74, set at Many Cubes in Mansfield 2025, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 66th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 81 competitions since January 2022, he has put 3,960 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.33 in January 2022 to 6.36, a 77% improvement. Gabriel has entered 81 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.16% of 186,767 all-time
0.74
signature single · Many Cubes in Mansfield 2025
3,960
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.741.98
top 0.16%66 / 40,951
Pyraminx1.311.89
top 0.22%74 / 28,708
Skewb1.692.76
top 0.71%117 / 18,907
3×36.368.12
top 0.73%477 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed10.7315.46
top 1.6%258 / 15,683
Clock4.025.52
top 2.4%201 / 8,927
4×429.5733.17
top 2.6%423 / 19,072
5×554.541:00.48
top 3.2%265 / 9,401
Megaminx47.3455.51
top 4.0%278 / 7,841
Square-18.8113.05
top 4.2%312 / 6,743
6×61:53.282:07.72
top 8.4%294 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves31.33
top 9.9%229 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded57.761:48.68
top 12.3%238 / 2,092
7×73:12.543:27.66
top 14.1%386 / 3,184
3×3 Multi-Blind10 of 13 cubes · 55:04—
early days — 3 solves212 / 731
4×4 blindfolded9:06.43—
top 52.2%220 / 440

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

Bulldog Winter 2022: 27.33Lake Erie Showdown 2022: 15.11Pittsburgh Summer A 2022: 14.90Ohio Valley Open 2022: 11.29Lake Erie Cubing Clash 2022: 13.92Pittsburgh Fall 2022: 11.55Ohio State Spring Gray 2023: 11.07NA Stadium Series - Cleveland 2023: 12.06Washtenaw Qualifier 2023: 9.66Quick in Quincy 2023: 9.59Winchester Weeknights III 2023: 9.75CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.96Railroad City 2023: 8.98Ohio State Fall 2023: 10.10Lake Erie Showdown 2023: 10.21CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 8.16ALL1- Pittsburgh 2023: 8.40BHT Pyraminx Bash 2024: 9.94Eastwood Cubing 2024: 7.94Ohio State RPAC Cube Clash 2024: 7.17Plum Puzzles 2024: 8.46Country Roads Huntington 2024: 8.57Ohio State Summer 2024: 7.30Salem Cubikon 2024: 8.77Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 6.77Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.51Eastwood Mall Summer 2024: 8.40Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 8.59Dublin Ohio Summer AM 2024: 9.34Y-Perms Near the Y-Bridge Zanesville 2024: 9.00Green Fall 2024: 8.24Fast in Fayette 2024: 7.81Ohio State Fall 2024: 8.00Ohio State Nearly New Years 2024: 6.36Ohio State Winter 2025: 7.05NxNationwide Lewis Center 2025: 7.80Cubes in the Mountains WV 2025: 7.74Preble Spring 2025: 7.93Erie Spring 2025: 7.32Presidential Puzzles in PA 2025: 7.82Axemann 2025: 7.84Many Cubes in Mansfield 2025: 7.54Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.38Doing Time in Moundsville 2025: 7.82Ohio State Summer 2025: 7.31CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 7.89Locked in Clocked in Coshocton 2025: 7.66Axemann Fall 2025: 7.16Fingertricks in Fredonia 2025: 7.80Oberlin Big Cubes 2025: 7.98Ohio Championship 2025: 7.07Ohio State Winter 2026: 7.55New Martinsville Newcomers 2026: 6.58Ohio University 2026: 7.48Cube Against Cancer Pittsburgh 2026: 7.09Return to Green OH 2026: 7.39OberliNxN 2026: 7.29Grand Central Cubing WV 2026: 7.76Northern Tier Twist 2026: 7.00Presidential Puzzles in PA 2026: 6.91Ohio State Summer Warm Up 2026: 7.26Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.49Kids America Coshocton Cube Clash 2026: 8.24Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 7.20Tartan Twist PA 2026: 7.846.3627.338 Jan 202229 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.69 away.

Targets move as he improves.