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Joel Melvin

3×3 · top 45.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025MELV01

Joel Melvin has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 22.11, set at FSUbers 10.0 2025, puts him in the top 45.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 26,388th in the United States. Across 3 competitions since February 2025, he has put 30 official solves on the record across four events. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.25 in February 2025 to 22.11, a 19% improvement. Joel has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 45.7% of 284,439 all-time
22.11
signature single · FSUbers 10.0 2025
30
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×322.1129.18
top 45.7%26,388 / 59,724
2×26.588.98
top 56.7%23,220 / 40,951
Skewb18.1222.83
top 86.4%16,623 / 18,907
Pyraminx19.2726.29
top 91.9%26,925 / 28,708

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

FSUbers 8.0 2025: 27.25Sowega Spring 2025: 29.48FSUbers 10.0 2025: 22.1122.1129.4822 Feb 202518 Oct 2025

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 22 Feb 2025First competition: FSUbers 8.0 2025. A 27.25 3×3 single to start from.

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 2.11 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.