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Jesse Brooke

3×3 · top 0.33% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2021 · 2021BROO02

Jesse Brooke has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.70, set at Welcome Back Hamilton 2026, puts him in the top 0.33% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in New Zealand. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since August 2021, he has put 1,635 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.42 in August 2021 to 5.70, a 50% improvement. Jesse has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.33% of 284,439 all-time
5.70
signature single · Welcome Back Hamilton 2026
1,635
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×35.707.74
top 0.33%15 / 2,095
3×3 one-handed8.599.59
top 0.35%7 / 600
Pyraminx2.113.78
top 1.3%42 / 1,141
2×21.622.55
top 2.7%79 / 1,615
4×430.2935.71
top 3.0%37 / 722
Clock5.256.26
top 5.1%30 / 303
Skewb3.555.01
top 8.0%74 / 666
5×51:11.021:24.19
top 12.3%46 / 355
Megaminx1:25.041:36.98
top 24.9%93 / 283
Square-120.7827.58
top 29.7%93 / 251
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves—
early days — 3 solves57 / 111
7×79:17.48—
early days — 1 solve124 / 126

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

NZ North Island Championship 2021: 11.42New Zealand Nationals 2022: 11.39Auckland Autumn 2023: 10.07Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023: 11.05NZ North Island Championship 2023: 8.79A New Year in Auckland 2024: 8.51Te Atatū Newcomers Open 2024: 8.53Auckland Matariki Open 2024: 8.54NZ North Island Championship 2024: 8.74New Zealand Cubing Decathlon 2024: 6.37Springing into Auckland 2024: 7.25Max Speed Milford 2024: 8.88A New Year in Auckland 2025: 7.16Twisting in Titirangi 2025: 7.60Puzzling Papatoetoe 2025: 6.98Milford Winter Warm Up 2025: 6.75Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 7.16Beachside Auckland 2025: 7.68New Zealand Cubing Decathlon 2025: 6.41Drury Summer 2025: 7.23New Zealand Nationals 2025: 7.03A New Year in Auckland 2026: 6.77NZ North Island Championship 2026: 6.95Cubing East Auckland Newcomer Open 2026: 6.51Welcome Back Hamilton 2026: 5.70Auckland Winter Open 2026: 7.19GAN New Zealand Nationals 2026: 6.365.7011.4213 Aug 202110 Jul 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.