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Jared Balassaitis

3×3 one-handed · top 0.49% of 74,621 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016BALA15

Jared Balassaitis has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.95, set at Gulf Shores 2025, puts him in the top 0.49% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 77th in the United States. Until November 2014, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 55 competitions since October 2016, he has put 2,769 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.14 in October 2016 to 6.70, a 61% improvement. Jared has entered 55 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.49% of 74,621 all-time
8.95
signature single · Gulf Shores 2025
2,769
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed8.9513.72
top 0.49%77 / 15,900
3×36.708.17
top 1.0%663 / 60,666
2×21.222.54
top 1.1%469 / 41,674
4×430.0735.19
top 2.9%482 / 19,354
Pyraminx2.916.46
top 3.3%891 / 29,168
5×556.361:05.86
top 3.9%335 / 9,537
Square-18.7211.28
top 4.1%308 / 6,846
Megaminx50.7955.21
top 5.5%400 / 8,026
Skewb3.244.65
top 6.3%987 / 19,164
Clock8.9310.70
top 19.5%1,527 / 9,172
6×62:19.952:28.77
top 20.6%732 / 4,262
7×73:49.284:24.59
top 26.9%769 / 3,236
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves43.67
top 51.9%1,117 / 2,059
3×3 blindfolded4:18.444:50.47
top 72.0%1,514 / 2,128

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

Athens Fall Late Night 2016: 17.14Athens Winter 2016: 12.36Americus Open 2017: 14.00Florida Cubing Spring Qualifier 2017: 13.53Mountain View Open 2017: 15.07Windsor Classic 2017: 13.40South Carolina 2017: 12.06Florida Feast 2017: 12.89Winter Warmup 2018: 11.80Whale Sounds 2018: 10.70STEM Educ8 2018: 9.56Classic City Closer 2018: 9.95Indialantic Open 2018: 10.83Windsor Classic 2018: 10.46GA Cubers Summer Blast 2018: 10.50CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 11.64Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 11.92Dunwoody Day Bash 2019: 12.01Lion Pride 2019: 10.18Florida 2019: 10.20Gator Cubing Spring Open 2019: 10.16Indialantic Open 2019: 8.71Jacksonville 2019: 8.98CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.73Florida Fall Fest 2019: 10.66ERAU Speedcubing Fall 2019: 9.12Florida Winter Break 2019: 9.08Cubing with Manatees 2020: 9.52Florida 2020: 8.43GA Cubers Return A 2021: 8.56Florida Returns 2021: 9.13GA Cubers Greetings 2022: 8.37FSUbers 2.0 2022: 8.76Cubing Bulls 2022: 8.57Pegasus 2023: 9.00Holiday Open 2023: 7.44CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.47Cubing Knights IV 2023: 8.82Sowega Solving 2023: 8.16Cubing Knights V 2023: 7.89FSUbers 5.0 2024: 7.19FSUbers 6.0 2024: 7.66CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 7.11Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024: 7.90St. Augustine 2024: 8.24Solving in Savannah 2025: 8.83Sowega Spring 2025: 8.01Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.70Beach Bash Jacksonville 2025: 7.63Zephyr Cube Bash 2025: 7.54Gulf Shores 2025: 6.93FSUbers 11.0 2026: 8.75Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.28Florida Championship 2026: 7.416.7017.148 Oct 20165 Sep 2026

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.

  • Sean Hartman — met in 457 rounds, finished ahead 46 times
  • Katie Hull — met in 431 rounds, finished ahead 69 times
  • Tommy Cherry — met in 331 rounds, finished ahead 11 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.