People · United Kingdom
Jake Williams
3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2022 · 2022WILL04
Jake Williams has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.93, set at Wiltshire Spring 2026, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 102nd in the United Kingdom. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since March 2022, he has put 988 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 8.85 in March 2022 to 6.93, a 22% improvement. Jake has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United Kingdom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.93 | 8.80 | top 1.3% | 102 / 6,689 | |
| 2×2 | 1.70 | 3.59 | top 3.1% | 231 / 4,895 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.64 | 15.42 | top 3.9% | 75 / 1,851 | |
| 4×4 | 33.09 | 39.53 | top 5.0% | 124 / 2,071 | |
| Megaminx | 1:00.94 | 1:17.54 | top 10.5% | 130 / 966 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.16 | 9.38 | top 14.2% | 541 / 3,656 | |
| Skewb | 4.60 | 7.07 | top 15.2% | 358 / 2,421 | |
| 5×5 | 1:19.05 | 1:34.60 | top 18.3% | 240 / 1,151 | |
| Clock | 9.80 | 11.68 | top 24.1% | 327 / 1,232 | |
| 6×6 | 2:34.32 | 2:48.65 | early days — 3 solves | 168 / 548 | |
| 7×7 | 4:09.99 | 4:17.85 | top 34.3% | 160 / 459 | |
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 41 moves | — | early days — 1 solve | 210 / 372 |
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
- 7 Feb 2026Five personal bests in one day at Devon Winter 2026.
- 3 Jul 2025Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025.
- 16 Nov 2024Four personal bests in one day at Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024.
- 20 Jan 2024Four personal bests in one day at Manchester Winter 2024.
- 28 Oct 2022Four personal bests in one day at Kewbz UK Championship 2022.
- 7 May 2022Three personal bests in one day at Wakefield Spring 2022.
Competitions
- Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026 · 16 Jul 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Bristol June 2026 · 6 Jun 2026
- Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026 · 16 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Leeds Spring 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Wiltshire Spring 2026 · 7 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Devon Winter 2026 · 7 Feb 2026 — 5 personal bests set
- Hampshire Autumn 2025 · 25 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025 · 17 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Chichester Summer 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024 · 18 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Manchester Winter 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Wiltshire Autumn 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Bristol Summer 2023 · 8 Jul 2023
- Exeter Summer 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Wakefield Spring 2023 · 1 Apr 2023
- Kewbz UK Championship 2022 · 28 Oct 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Cheltenham Summer 2022 · 25 Jun 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Wakefield Spring 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Weston-super-Mare Open 2022 · 19 Mar 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.
- Oliver Wheat — met in 140 rounds, finished ahead 92 times
- Billie Hammill — met in 115 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
- Jake Brown — met in 107 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
Targets move as he improves.