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Jon Brean

3×3 · top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015COLL08

Jon Brean has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.04, set at Guildford Open 2017, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 553rd in the United Kingdom. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since November 2015, he has put 849 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.80 in November 2015 to 10.04, a 44% improvement. Jon has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.04
signature single · Guildford Open 2017
849
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×310.0411.66
top 7.6%553 / 6,689
Skewb3.618.29
top 8.4%193 / 2,421
Square-112.2515.07
top 10.4%107 / 778
2×22.924.21
top 13.3%812 / 4,895
Clock7.678.91
top 13.6%201 / 1,232
4×442.4750.64
top 15.0%352 / 2,071
3×3 one-handed18.4623.71
top 16.3%309 / 1,851
5×51:38.391:46.97
top 34.2%437 / 1,151
Pyraminx7.8810.33
top 35.2%1,421 / 3,656
6×63:26.413:54.23
top 53.3%321 / 548
Megaminx2:45.15—
early days — 2 solves769 / 966
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves—
early days — 2 solves289 / 372
7×76:31.756:43.30
early days — 3 solves363 / 459

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

UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 17.80North London Open 2016: 13.08UK Championship 2016: 13.71London Open 2017: 11.88World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.57August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 10.86Guildford Open 2017: 10.04UK Championship 2017: 10.86Guildford Open 2018: 10.75High Wycombe Open 2018: 11.79UK Championship 2018: 12.69August Bank Holiday Manchester 2023: 10.32Liverpool Winter 2023: 10.60Manchester Spring 2024: 10.72Battersea Autumn 2024: 12.09Manchester Spring 2025: 11.5010.0417.807 Nov 201518 Apr 2025

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.