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Jacob Mead

3×3 · top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023MEAD06

Jacob Mead has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.94, set at Stevenage September 2025, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 216th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since September 2023, he has put 313 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.67 in September 2023 to 7.94, a 32% improvement. Jacob has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.94
signature single · Stevenage September 2025
313
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×37.948.76
top 2.7%216 / 6,689
4×430.5237.60
top 3.1%73 / 2,071
2×21.742.70
top 3.3%242 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed15.4619.71
top 9.1%184 / 1,851
5×51:08.461:10.29
top 10.5%140 / 1,151
Square-112.8216.78
top 11.5%118 / 778
Pyraminx5.9011.48
top 19.2%745 / 3,656

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

Kent Autumn 2023: 11.67Wiltshire December 2023: 9.80Stevenage April 2024: 8.54Mind Sports Olympiad London 2024: 8.40Kewbz UK Open 2024: 8.67Stevenage Beginners September A 2024: 8.25Battersea Autumn 2024: 8.31Stevenage September 2025: 7.947.9411.6730 Sep 20236 Sep 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 1.94 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.