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Graeme Stone

5×5 · top 0.098% of 40,792 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022STON01

Graeme Stone has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 38.80, set at Skowhegan Puzzlefest 2026, puts him in the top 0.098% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in the United States. Until July 2017, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since January 2022, he has put 1,168 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.63 in January 2022 to 5.12, a 41% improvement. Graeme has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 0.098% of 40,792 all-time
38.80
signature single · Skowhegan Puzzlefest 2026
1,168
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
5×538.8049.24
top 0.098%8 / 9,401
3×35.126.76
top 0.14%100 / 59,724
4×424.0429.32
top 0.5%88 / 19,072
6×61:29.001:35.56
top 1.7%65 / 4,196
7×72:24.232:43.74
top 2.9%77 / 3,184
2×21.742.80
top 3.3%1,274 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed13.4416.44
top 5.2%729 / 15,683
Pyraminx3.755.32
top 6.5%1,667 / 28,708
Clock9.3512.53
top 21.8%1,678 / 8,927
Square-129.9042.47
top 49.2%3,216 / 6,743

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

Empire State Winter B 2022: 8.63Maine Spring 2022: 9.16Princeton Spring 2022: 7.65Amherst Open 2022: 7.27Maine Fall 2022: 7.44Loon Cubikon 2022: 6.54Puzzling in Providence 2023: 6.15Garden City Winter 2023: 6.43Maine Spring 2023: 6.68Cape Cod 2023: 5.54CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.84Be Quick in Brunswick 2023: 5.73CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 6.02Loon Cubikon 2023: 6.01Winchester Wind Down 2023: 6.56Maine Winter 2024: 6.10River Hawk Cubikon 2024: 6.33QuabbiNxN 2024: 6.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.17CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 5.82QuabbiNxN Fall 2024: 6.45Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 6.58Orono Open 2025: 5.12Skowhegan Cubikon 2025: 6.16Lubec Cubec 2025: 6.39Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 5.31CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 6.14Ogunquit Winter 2025: 6.39Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026: 6.01Skowhegan Puzzlefest 2026: 5.41UnOrono-thodox Blocks 2026: 6.24Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 5.965.129.1616 Jan 20222 Jul 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.

  • Derek White — met in 187 rounds, finished ahead 136 times
  • Will Russo — met in 156 rounds, finished ahead 110 times
  • Aidan McKenzie — met in 140 rounds, finished ahead 55 times

Next targets

  • A sub-30 5×5 single — 1 people have one; it is 8.80 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.