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Jacob Lawty

3×3 · top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015LAWT01

Jacob Lawty has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.43, set at Tacoma Summer 2024, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,126th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since January 2015, he has put 669 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.24 in January 2015 to 7.43, a 72% improvement. Jacob has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time
7.43
signature single · Tacoma Summer 2024
669
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.438.67
top 1.9%1,126 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.985.74
top 3.6%946 / 28,708
2×22.023.98
top 4.9%1,961 / 40,951
4×436.6540.96
top 8.3%1,256 / 19,072
Skewb4.235.77
top 12.5%1,940 / 18,907
Square-119.6329.58
top 27.1%1,779 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed26.6931.39
top 38.6%5,127 / 15,683
Megaminx1:47.751:53.80
top 39.1%2,815 / 7,841

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

Rose City Cubing Competition 2015: 26.24UW Spring 2015: 22.14Cubes4Speed MOX Summer 2015: 21.74Keep Portland Weird 2015: 20.33Puget Sound Open 2015: 22.14PDX Cubing Alpha 2016: 16.25Puget Sound Spring 2016: 17.15Rose City 2016: 15.80US Nationals 2016: 15.17Puget Sound Fall 2016: 14.08Eugene 2016: 15.67Puget Sound Winter 2017: 17.79Keep Portland Weird 2017: 14.98Rose City 2017: 19.14Puget Sound NxNxN 2018: 12.34PDX Cubing for Causes 2019: 11.79West Seattle Favorites 2019: 12.72Rose City 2019: 12.89Puget Sound Spring 2019: 12.07Puget Sound Fall 2019: 10.91Puget Sound NxNxN 2019: 11.02Stumptown Speedcubing Summer 2023: 8.00Hillsboro Favorites 2024: 8.28Tacoma Summer 2024: 7.43See Georgia: Cloudland Canyon A 2025: 7.60Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.117.4326.2431 Jan 20153 Jul 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 1.43 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.