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Jin Thrall

3×3 · top 5.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022THRA01

Jin Thrall has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.18, set at Don't Pop Preble 2024, puts him in the top 5.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,964th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since September 2022, he has put 766 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.44 in September 2022 to 9.18, a 57% improvement. Jin has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.18
signature single · Don't Pop Preble 2024
766
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.1811.23
top 5.3%2,964 / 59,724
2×22.433.53
top 8.2%3,242 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.865.75
top 12.3%3,207 / 28,708
4×441.1246.77
top 13.4%2,001 / 19,072
5×51:16.741:28.84
top 16.6%1,290 / 9,401
Square-117.6723.38
top 22.6%1,491 / 6,743
Skewb5.717.07
top 23.5%3,786 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed22.4928.94
top 27.3%3,532 / 15,683
Clock10.4911.43
top 27.5%2,113 / 8,927
Megaminx1:34.581:58.65
top 31.1%2,189 / 7,841
6×62:48.883:01.11
top 35.5%1,276 / 4,196
3×3 blindfolded2:08.77—
top 36.3%761 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves—
early days — 2 solves879 / 2,040
7×75:32.75—
top 60.5%1,808 / 3,184

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

Cubing in the Ville 2022: 21.44UIUC Fall 2022: 16.53Naperville Winter B 2022: 12.81Imagination Station A 2023: 13.67Indiana Finally Returns 2023: 11.86Little Giant Open 2023: 13.25Fort Wayne Favorites 2023: 13.56The Core of Hobart 2023: 12.39Nimble Hands in Noblesville 2024: 11.85Bloomington Open 2024: 11.28Little Giant Open 2024: 10.58Circle City Cubing 2024: 10.16Countless Cubes Chicagoland A 2024: 11.79WonderLand Education West Lafayette Fall 2024: 10.98Don't Pop Preble 2024: 9.18NxNationwide Lewis Center 2025: 10.41South Bend Scramble 2025: 10.76Fun in Muncie 2025: 9.96Minxville Indiana 2025: 10.38Hancock County Summer 2025: 10.57Best in West Lafayette 2025: 10.64UIUC Fall 2025: 11.31National Trail Open OH 2026: 9.349.1821.443 Sep 202225 Apr 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.18 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.