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Jackson Cobb

3×3 · top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2024 · 2024COBB01

Jackson Cobb has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.86, set at Cincinnati Open 2025, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,474th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since November 2024, he has put 273 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.25 in November 2024 to 7.86, a 36% improvement. Jackson has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.86
signature single · Cincinnati Open 2025
273
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.869.95
top 2.5%1,474 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.856.14
top 6.9%1,761 / 28,708
2×22.353.64
top 7.5%2,957 / 40,951
4×450.0054.54
top 24.7%3,781 / 19,072
Clock10.1414.14
top 25.8%1,979 / 8,927
Megaminx2:07.28
top 49.7%3,695 / 7,841
Square-131.4455.23
top 52.1%3,417 / 6,743
Skewb9.5715.99
top 52.3%9,406 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed33.3638.44
top 54.1%7,507 / 15,683

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

Swoop in and Solve Oxford 2024: 12.25Don't Pop Preble 2024: 12.14Preble Spring 2025: 10.37Northern Kentucky 2025: 10.65Cincinnati Open 2025: 7.86Cubing by the Kings OH 2025: 8.87Ohio Championship 2025: 8.847.8612.253 Nov 202420 Dec 2025

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.86 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.