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Jacob Bote

3×3 · top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019BOTE01

Jacob Bote has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.50, set at Agoura Side Events Day 2025, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,178th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since March 2019, he has put 1,022 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.58 in March 2019 to 7.50, a 67% improvement. Jacob has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time
7.50
signature single · Agoura Side Events Day 2025
1,022
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.509.54
top 2.0%1,178 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed11.7515.77
top 2.7%425 / 15,683
Megaminx44.7451.02
top 3.0%213 / 7,841
2×21.903.28
top 4.1%1,623 / 40,951
Clock5.626.51
top 6.0%469 / 8,927
4×434.9837.45
top 6.7%1,037 / 19,072
5×51:10.151:15.43
top 11.7%907 / 9,401
Skewb4.215.44
top 12.4%1,924 / 18,907
Pyraminx5.187.27
top 14.3%3,748 / 28,708
6×62:12.342:28.78
top 16.5%589 / 4,196
7×73:38.023:58.32
top 22.7%643 / 3,184

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

Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019: 22.58Santa Barbara Fall 2019: 19.41Westview Winter B 2021: 11.92Anaheim Winter A 2022: 10.05Circle City Summer 2022: 10.44Diamond Bar September 2022: 9.63WCC Western Championship 2022: 9.62Circle City Supercharged 2022: 9.26Cubing in the Valley 2023: 8.17UCSD For Hemophilia 2023: 11.41Pride in Long Beach 2023: 9.18Vegas Speedcubing Summer 2023: 9.64Agoura Cubing Again 2023: 8.98Santa Ana Summer A 2023: 10.10Corona Summer 2023: 9.37Irvine Fall 2023: 8.87Santa Barbara Cubing 2024: 9.00Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2024: 10.01Agoura Cubing Returns 2024: 8.90UCSB Cubing 2024: 7.84Temecula Valley Fall 2024: 8.67UCSD Fall 2024: 9.78Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 8.24Santa Barbara Winter 2025: 9.28Agoura Side Events Day 2025: 7.50UCLA Spring 2025: 8.12West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025: 8.06Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.61UCSD Unofficial Events 2025: 8.71Super Duper San Diego 2026: 8.35UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 9.437.5022.5830 Mar 20194 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.50 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.