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Joseph Briggs

3×3 one-handed · top 0.2% of 73,695 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017BRIG03

Joseph Briggs has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 7.99, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.2% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 62 competitions since July 2017, he has put 2,498 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 9.52 in July 2017 to 6.03, a 37% improvement. Joseph has entered 62 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.2% of 73,695 all-time
7.99
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
2,498
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 one-handed7.999.99
top 0.2%7 / 1,851
3×36.037.77
top 0.5%49 / 6,689
2×21.403.18
top 1.7%138 / 4,895
Megaminx55.621:04.12
top 7.7%98 / 966
4×436.4143.12
top 8.1%192 / 2,071
5×51:14.661:27.38
top 15.0%201 / 1,151
Pyraminx16.8127.55
top 87.3%3,363 / 3,656

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

London Open 2017: 9.52UK Championship 2017: 10.51Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 9.35High Wycombe Open 2018: 9.05UK Championship 2018: 8.70Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 7.57UK Championship 2019: 8.37Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 8.89Fontwell Open 2020: 8.26Wakefield Open 2022: 8.54Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 7.51Stevenage Spring 2022: 7.34Chester Spring 2022: 7.13Cheltenham Summer 2022: 7.71Stevenage Summer 2022: 7.90Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 8.00Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 7.94Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 7.54Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2022: 7.82Level Up Uusimaa 2022: 7.49Guildford Winter 2023: 7.48Reading Spring 2023: 7.99Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 7.38Hampshire Spring 2023: 7.55Isle of Wight Summer 2023: 7.07Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 7.76Stevenage September 2023: 6.80Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 8.28Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2023: 7.86Hampshire Winter 2024: 7.80Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 7.23Stevenage July 2024: 6.73Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 7.00Kewbz UK Open 2024: 7.36Hampshire Autumn 2024: 7.15Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 7.88Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 6.61Singapore Freeze 2024: 6.48Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025: 7.14Manchester January 2025: 7.43Hampshire Winter 2025: 7.58Manchester Spring 2025: 7.29Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 6.90Kewbz Scottish Championship 2025: 6.12Manchester June 2025: 7.71Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 8.10Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 7.20Hampshire Autumn 2025: 6.95Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 6.39Manchester Favourites II 2026: 7.25Crewe Spring 2026: 6.80Bolton Spring 2026: 7.81Liverpool Spring 2026: 7.04Manchester Cubing League - First 2026: 7.05Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026: 7.14Crewe May 2026: 6.49Hampshire Summer 2026: 6.61Manchester Cubing League - Final 2026: 7.84Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 6.03Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 7.276.0310.518 Jul 201728 Aug 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-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.99 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.