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Jesse Hartnett

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2012 · 2012HART03

Jesse Hartnett has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.01, set at Pennsylvania Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 820th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 68 competitions since August 2012, he has put 2,119 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.70 in August 2012 to 7.01, a 66% improvement. Jesse has entered 68 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.01
signature single · Pennsylvania Championship 2024
2,119
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.019.19
top 1.3%820 / 59,724
5×555.321:01.77
top 3.5%290 / 9,401
2×21.913.98
top 4.2%1,655 / 40,951
4×432.8838.49
top 4.9%763 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed16.9023.06
top 12.3%1,604 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.1410.06
top 14.1%3,683 / 28,708
6×62:08.392:15.99
top 14.6%530 / 4,196
Skewb4.599.10
top 15.1%2,375 / 18,907
7×73:32.593:49.17
top 20.6%585 / 3,184
Megaminx1:24.181:36.72
top 24.4%1,685 / 7,841
Square-11:07.21—
early days — 1 solve5,908 / 6,743

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

United States National Championships 2012: 20.70Colorado Springs 2013: 15.86World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 16.60Remember The Alamo 2014: 13.75Colorado Springs Open 2015: 11.49Texas Two-Day Showdown 2015: 12.07Northern Colorado Summer 2015: 10.85Rocky Mountain Winter 2016: 10.96US Nationals 2016: 9.69Princeton Fall 2016: 10.99Longmont Cube Open 2017: 10.461 Body Cubing 2017: 10.38CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 11.43Longmont Summer 2017: 10.74Veterans Day Open 2017: 10.19Colorado Qualifier 2018: 9.85CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.70Pueblo Open 2018: 9.71Rocky Mountain Spring 2019: 9.61Colorado Qualifier 2019: 8.82Pikes Peak 2019: 8.82WCA World Championship 2019: 9.86CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.20Flag City Fall 2019: 8.12Colorado Springs Winter 2020: 9.68Cubing At Sea 2020: 7.50Empire State Winter A 2022: 8.20CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 8.58New York Championship 2022: 9.65Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 8.25East Brunswick Open 2022: 9.08Westport Summer 2022: 8.53Princeton Fall 2022: 9.02Empire State Fall 2022: 8.64New York Yopen 2022: 7.41Pretzel Mania 2023: 8.48Niskayuna Nimble Fingers 2023: 8.41NJIT Spring 2023: 8.28Washtenaw Spring B 2023: 8.69PBs in Palisades 2023: 9.30Cape Cod 2023: 8.71CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 9.15CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.75CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 8.22Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 8.33CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 8.97Hudson Valley 2023: 7.29Manhattan Mini B 2023: 9.34New York New Year 2024: 9.90Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 8.50Ridgefield Spring 2024: 7.51Edgemont Cubing 2024: 8.53Spring into Summit 2024: 8.90Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 8.36Empire State NxN 2024: 7.39Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 7.01Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.31CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 7.45A Little Fun in Littleton Colorado 2025: 8.86PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 8.45Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.69DeNxNver 2026: 8.26Colorado Springs Spring 2026: 7.85Cube Against Cancer Colorado 2026: 9.05Longmont Open 2026: 7.84Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.207.0120.703 Aug 20122 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.

  • AJ Blair — met in 159 rounds, finished ahead 49 times
  • Evan Liu — met in 144 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Dylan Hughlett — met in 137 rounds, finished ahead 12 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.01 away.
  • A sub-50 5×5 single — 713 people have one; it is 5.32 away.

Targets move as he improves.