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Jacob Thomann
Clock · top 4.1% of 32,817 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022THOM10
Jacob Thomann has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 4.87, set at Mystic Cubikon 2025, puts him in the top 4.1% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 336th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since May 2022, he has put 1,538 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.01 in May 2022 to 10.20, a 64% improvement. Jacob has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | 4.87 | 6.64 | top 4.1% | 336 / 9,172 | |
| 2×2 | 2.14 | 3.98 | top 5.8% | 2,340 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.89 | 6.04 | top 7.1% | 1,857 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 | 10.20 | 13.10 | top 8.1% | 4,508 / 60,666 | |
| 4×4 | 44.73 | 50.35 | top 18.0% | 2,780 / 19,354 | |
| Skewb | 5.01 | 6.44 | top 18.3% | 2,929 / 19,164 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 19.78 | 23.27 | top 20.0% | 2,599 / 15,900 | |
| Megaminx | 1:34.91 | 1:47.99 | top 31.4% | 2,263 / 8,026 | |
| Square-1 | 23.32 | 28.93 | top 35.5% | 2,330 / 6,846 | |
| 5×5 | 1:40.22 | 1:49.15 | top 35.6% | 2,863 / 9,537 | |
| 6×6 | 3:42.99 | 4:10.75 | top 59.9% | 2,324 / 4,262 | |
| 7×7 | 6:16.57 | 7:07.31 | top 71.5% | 2,246 / 3,236 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 48 moves | — | early days — 2 solves | 1,548 / 2,059 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 1 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at CubingUSA New England Championship 2025.
- 29 Sep 2024Four personal bests in one day at QuabbiNxN Fall 2024.
- 27 Jul 2023Three personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Nationals 2023.
- 11 Jun 2023Three personal bests in one day at Cubehenge 2023.
- 26 Feb 2023Three personal bests in one day at Northampton Winter B 2023.
- 21 Jan 2023First sub-15 3×3: 14.38 at Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023.
Competitions
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2026 · 16 Oct 2026
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing in Westerly RI 2026 · 9 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026 · 21 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Wide Moves & Waterslides CT 2026 · 10 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing in Westerly RI 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2025 · 1 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Mystic Cubikon 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025 · 26 Apr 2025
- Fall River Cubikon 2025 · 2 Feb 2025
- Springfield Cube Day 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- M Moves in Middlebury 2024 · 19 Oct 2024
- QuabbiNxN Fall 2024 · 29 Sep 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2024 · 23 Aug 2024
- Mystic Cubikon 2024 · 28 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024
- Salem Cubikon 2024 · 9 Jun 2024
- Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024 · 20 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cardinal Cube Day 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- WPI Winter 2024 · 10 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Connecticut Winter 2024 · 6 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Loon Cubikon 2023 · 19 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Northampton Fall A 2023 · 4 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2023 · 7 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- New England FMC Warmup 2023 · 1 Oct 2023
- Elm City Kubikon 2023 · 24 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Mystic Cubikon 2023 · 20 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubehenge 2023 · 11 Jun 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Connecticut Spring 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Middleboro Cubikon 2023 · 6 May 2023
- Saint John's Scramble 2023 · 1 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Northampton Winter B 2023 · 26 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Puzzling in Providence 2023 · 7 Jan 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing in Cambridge 2022 · 17 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Loon Cubikon 2022 · 20 Nov 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Naticube 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Amherst Open 2022 · 10 Sep 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Pretzel Mania 2022 · 3 Sep 2022 — 8 personal bests set
- Fast In Mass 2022 · 18 Jun 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022 · 27 May 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022 · 7 May 2022
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.
- Saisabari Ramesh — met in 279 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
- Ethan Zhuang — met in 273 rounds, finished ahead 27 times
- Curtis Chai — met in 262 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
Next targets
- A sub-4 Clock single — 754 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
Targets move as he improves.