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Jacob Walton

3×3 · top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022WALT09

Jacob Walton has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.26, set at Battersea Autumn 2024, puts him in the top 5.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 407th in the United Kingdom. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since September 2022, he has put 443 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.54 in September 2022 to 9.26, a 44% improvement. Jacob has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.26
signature single · Battersea Autumn 2024
443
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×39.2611.31
top 5.5%407 / 6,689
2×22.383.45
top 7.8%533 / 4,895
5×51:09.221:19.26
top 11.1%151 / 1,151
4×440.6845.91
top 12.9%299 / 2,071
6×62:17.752:31.04
top 19.4%115 / 548
Pyraminx6.146.85
top 21.0%818 / 3,656
7×73:44.753:56.81
top 25.2%121 / 459
3×3 one-handed22.6924.62
top 27.9%511 / 1,851
Clock10.7013.13
top 28.6%377 / 1,232
Megaminx1:46.92
top 38.6%434 / 966
Skewb7.7310.74
top 39.3%929 / 2,421
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves44.67
top 55.5%226 / 372
Square-140.23
top 65.7%536 / 778
3×3 blindfolded5:56.70
early days — 3 solves287 / 311

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

Wakefield Autumn 2022: 16.54Essex Winter 2022: 12.65Brent Cross Winter 2023: 11.02Stevenage June 2023: 10.84Wakefield Autumn 2023: 10.86Wakefield Summer 2024: 10.02Kewbz UK Open 2024: 10.04Battersea Autumn 2024: 9.26Bristol August 2025: 9.759.2616.5410 Sep 202230 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.26 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.