People · United States
Holden Neel
3×3 · top 5.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2025 · 2025NEEL01
Holden Neel has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.30, set at Oregon State Fall 2025, puts him in the top 5.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,118th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since March 2025, he has put 203 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.78 in March 2025 to 9.30, a 50% improvement. Holden 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 | 9.30 | 11.77 | top 5.6% | 3,118 / 59,724 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.48 | 8.95 | top 10.1% | 2,635 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 3.11 | 4.03 | top 15.5% | 6,071 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 1:00.85 | 1:05.86 | top 37.4% | 6,035 / 19,072 | |
| Skewb | 10.20 | 15.53 | top 56.1% | 10,206 / 18,907 |
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
- 6 Dec 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.30 at Oregon State Fall 2025.
- 6 Dec 2025Three personal bests in one day at Oregon State Fall 2025.
- 25 May 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.92 at Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025.
- 22 Mar 2025First competition: Lakewood Newcomers 2025. A 20.17 3×3 single to start from.
- 22 Mar 2025First sub-20 3×3: 18.78 at Lakewood Newcomers 2025.
Competitions
- Summer Scramble UW 2026 · 15 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Oregon State Fall 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Kent Fall 2025 · 22 Nov 2025
- Lakewood Fall 2025 · 8 Nov 2025
- Seattle Cube Cascade UW 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Warm Up Seattle 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Kent Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Newcomers 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Rex Gilmore — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Saharsh Sai Vontela — met in 35 rounds, never finished ahead
- Haris Carpenter — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.30 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
Targets move as he improves.