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Isaiah Baker

3×3 · top 0.19% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2021 · 2021BAKE01

Isaiah Baker has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.29, set at DFW Cubing Winter 2025, puts him in the top 0.19% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 128th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since July 2021, he has put 774 official solves on the record across eight 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 11.60 in July 2021 to 5.29, a 54% improvement. Isaiah has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.19% of 284,439 all-time
5.29
signature single · DFW Cubing Winter 2025
774
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
3×35.296.98
top 0.19%128 / 59,724
2×21.442.02
top 1.9%752 / 40,951
4×428.8335.97
top 2.2%356 / 19,072
Pyraminx2.834.95
top 3.1%823 / 28,708
Skewb3.135.63
top 5.6%876 / 18,907
Square-110.9016.95
top 7.8%565 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed15.6721.70
top 9.5%1,254 / 15,683
5×51:37.781:39.33
top 33.7%2,672 / 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

Cubing Is A Sport Frisco AM 2021: 11.60Oklahoma Fall PM 2021: 9.67Cashew Cubing 2022: 7.76Wichita Art Museum Winter 2023: 8.52CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 8.05CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.53Air Capital Cubing Summer 2023: 6.38Cube With Attention in Denton 2023: 7.13UCO Cubing Winter 2024: 5.73DFW Megacomp 2024: 6.89CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 5.90KS Air Capital Cubing 2024: 7.17DFW Cubing Winter 2025: 5.29Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025: 5.82Welcome Back Tulsa 2025: 7.19Oklahoma Championship 2025: 6.98Kansas Air Capital Cubing 2025: 5.80Tulsa Holiday Cube-Off 2025: 6.15OKC Winter 2026: 6.44Cube Against Cancer Tulsa 2026: 6.395.2911.6010 Jul 202118 Apr 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.

  • Jake Maddox — met in 125 rounds, finished ahead 57 times
  • Ryan Pilat — met in 108 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
  • Casey Ngo — met in 81 rounds, finished ahead 35 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.