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Jacob Lam

3×3 · top 0.59% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022LAMJ01

Jacob Lam has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.16, set at Pickering Favourites Autumn 2024, puts him in the top 0.59% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 54th in Canada. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since March 2022, he has put 990 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.32 in March 2022 to 6.16, a 66% improvement. Jacob has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.59% of 284,439 all-time
6.16
signature single · Pickering Favourites Autumn 2024
990
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×36.168.21
top 0.59%54 / 10,392
Pyraminx1.912.71
top 0.99%33 / 4,858
Clock3.244.32
top 1.1%10 / 1,029
4×428.4632.01
top 2.0%51 / 3,118
5×552.6059.47
top 2.5%26 / 1,499
Skewb2.505.57
top 2.9%45 / 2,907
2×22.133.57
top 5.7%363 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed14.2116.39
top 6.5%138 / 2,620
6×61:53.321:58.73
top 8.4%35 / 665
Square-112.4816.83
top 10.8%86 / 952
Megaminx1:04.371:11.50
top 12.3%107 / 1,375
7×73:13.203:20.24
top 14.3%52 / 503
3×3 blindfolded2:00.09—
top 33.5%110 / 351
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 14:08—
early days — 1 solve96 / 112

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

Florida Spring B 2022: 18.32Cubing Bulls 2022: 18.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 17.61Oakville Fall A 2022: 17.36CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023: 10.11Cubing Knights V 2023: 8.10Miami Spring 2024: 8.32CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 7.76Ontario Championship 2024: 8.44FSUbers 7.0 2024: 7.30Miami Skewbed 2024: 7.86Pickering Favourites Autumn 2024: 6.16CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 7.96Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.23Championnat Canadien 2025: 6.76Beach Bash Jacksonville 2025: 7.72Zephyr Cube Bash 2025: 8.04Thrice as Nice Miami 2025: 7.75Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.386.1618.7612 Mar 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.

  • Kellan Butler — met in 146 rounds, finished ahead 66 times
  • Noah Swor — met in 135 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
  • Sean Hartman — met in 134 rounds, finished ahead 18 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.16 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.