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Joseph Hirsch

Skewb · top 0.47% of 73,281 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018HIRS01

Joseph Hirsch has been competing for 9 years. Their best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.51, set at DFW Cubing Fall 2025, puts them in the top 0.47% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 77th in the United States. Until October 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since January 2018, they have put 947 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Their 3×3 best has come down from 19.76 in January 2018 to 6.64, a 66% improvement. Joseph has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.47% of 73,281 all-time
1.51
signature single · DFW Cubing Fall 2025
947
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Skewb1.512.50
top 0.47%77 / 18,907
3×36.648.32
top 0.97%612 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.623.75
top 2.5%666 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed12.2514.65
top 3.3%507 / 15,683
2×22.153.17
top 5.8%2,333 / 40,951
4×441.4752.00
top 13.9%2,065 / 19,072
Clock11.4219.17
top 32.2%2,518 / 8,927
Square-132.8938.38
top 54.9%3,622 / 6,743

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

South East Texas Open 2018: 19.76Longhorn Spring 2018: 25.81Dallas Fort Worth 2018: 21.03DFW Cubing Fiesta July 2018: 21.38DFW Cubing Fiesta September 2018: 14.16Frisco Liberty Cubing 2019: 15.04DFW With A Twist 2019: 14.93CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 14.97North Dallas 2019: 11.56Dallas Warm Up 2019: 11.90DFW Cubing Fall 2022: 8.41CubingUSA Texas Championship 2022: 9.35MYHM Puzzling in Plano 2023: 8.11Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 8.20DFW Cubing Fall 2023: 7.70DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 8.33DFW Minicomp C 2024: 7.50DFW Cubing Winter 2025: 8.46DFW Qualifier 2025: 8.08DFW Cubing Summer 2025: 7.41DFW Back to School 2025: 7.93DFW Cubing Fall 2025: 7.23DFW Favorites 2026: 7.00DFW Weeknights 2 2026: 8.02DFW Cubing Spring 2026: 7.38GAN Southern Championship 2026: 7.74DFW Cubing Summer 2026: 6.646.6425.816 Jan 201829 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.51 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as they improves.