People · United States
Gage Flowers
3×3 · top 1.0% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022FLOW02
Gage Flowers has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.66, set at Minnesota Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 642nd in the United States. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since October 2022, he has put 485 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.67 in October 2022 to 6.66, a 23% improvement. Gage has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.66 | 7.83 | top 1.0% | 642 / 60,666 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 10.31 | 12.99 | top 1.3% | 206 / 15,900 | |
| 2×2 | 2.00 | 2.74 | top 4.8% | 1,938 / 41,674 | |
| Clock | 6.78 | 8.60 | top 10.1% | 804 / 9,172 | |
| 4×4 | 39.45 | 52.11 | top 11.6% | 1,730 / 19,354 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.37 | 9.58 | top 22.8% | 6,258 / 29,168 | |
| Skewb | 5.76 | 7.56 | top 24.0% | 3,927 / 19,164 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 35 moves | 41.00 | top 30.1% | 661 / 2,059 | |
| 5×5 | 1:45.63 | 2:02.94 | top 39.7% | 3,248 / 9,537 | |
| Megaminx | 1:55.52 | 2:04.60 | top 43.5% | 3,251 / 8,026 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 May 2026Six personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2026.
- 31 Jan 2026Three personal bests in one day at North Star Cubing Challenge MN 2026.
- 29 Nov 2025Five personal bests in one day at Minnesota Championship 2025.
- 22 Aug 2025Five personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025.
- 30 Nov 2024Six personal bests in one day at Minnesota Championship 2024.
- 21 Jan 2023Three personal bests in one day at North Star Cubing Challenge 2023.
Competitions
- Only Odds in Minnesota 2026 · 12 Sep 2026
- CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2026 · 22 May 2026 — 6 personal bests set
- North Star Cubing Challenge MN 2026 · 31 Jan 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Minnesota Championship 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025 · 22 Aug 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Minnesota Cube Melt 2025 · 27 Apr 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Minnesota Championship 2024 · 30 Nov 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- North Star Cubing Challenge 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubetcha 2022 · 8 Oct 2022
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.
- Nathan Phillips — met in 96 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
- Walker Welch — met in 94 rounds, finished ahead 32 times
- Nathan Rahn — met in 94 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.66 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 800 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
Targets move as he improves.