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Joey Silva

3×3 · top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2018 · 2018SILV15

Joey Silva has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.52, set at DFW Cubing Fall 2024, puts him in the top 3.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,123rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since February 2018, he has put 427 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 44.64 in February 2018 to 8.52, an 81% improvement. Joey has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.52
signature single · DFW Cubing Fall 2024
427
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.5210.33
top 3.8%2,123 / 59,724
Skewb3.025.19
top 5.1%783 / 18,907
2×22.803.48
top 12.0%4,737 / 40,951
4×450.1255.49
top 24.9%3,806 / 19,072

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

Odd Cubing Day 2018: 44.64Frisco Liberty Cubing 2019: 16.09Trinity Valley Open Spring 2019: 15.10CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 11.92Waco Cube Assembly 2019: 12.40Frisco Liberty Cubing 2020: 10.71MYHM Puzzling in Plano 2023: 9.16Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 9.94Texas Championship 2023: 9.35DFW Cubing Fall 2023: 9.63DFW Winter Variation 2024: 8.82DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 10.86Richardson Cubing Afternoon 2024: 8.97DFW Cubing Fall 2024: 8.52Cube a Ton in Arlington 2024: 9.27DFW Cubing Winter 2025: 9.19Brazos Cubing Winter 2026: 9.318.5244.6411 Feb 201818 Jan 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 0.52 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.