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Joseph Wu

3×3 · top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024WUJO01

Joseph Wu has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.97, set at UCSD Unofficial Events 2025, puts him in the top 2.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,573rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 42 competitions since March 2024, he has put 914 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.14 in March 2024 to 7.97, a 66% improvement. Joseph has entered 42 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.97
signature single · UCSD Unofficial Events 2025
914
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.979.24
top 2.7%1,573 / 59,724
2×22.143.68
top 5.7%2,292 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.816.77
top 6.8%1,725 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed14.8121.26
top 7.7%1,035 / 15,683
4×439.9348.24
top 12.1%1,784 / 19,072
Clock7.9110.24
top 14.8%1,136 / 8,927
Square-114.5721.86
top 15.4%1,037 / 6,743
Skewb5.318.67
top 20.6%3,283 / 18,907
Megaminx2:05.882:26.52
top 49.1%3,650 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves—
top 55.5%1,178 / 2,040
5×53:39.15—
top 88.2%8,236 / 9,401

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

Los Angeles Newcomers 2024: 23.14Nub Open Yucaipa 2024: 28.79Westview Cubing Favorites 2024: 20.31Agoura Cubing Returns 2024: 16.94Nub Open Mission Viejo Summer 2024: 12.28La La Land 2024: 13.24Aliso Niguel Summer 2024: 14.98UCSB Cubing 2024: 13.56Temecula Valley Fall 2024: 11.81UCSD Fall 2024: 10.40CubeChella 2024: 11.67Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 9.21Santa Barbara Winter 2025: 11.90Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 11.08Agoura Side Events Day 2025: 10.91UCLA Spring 2025: 10.66Burbank Big Cubes 2025: 9.29UCSD Maybe 2025: 8.48Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 9.66Nub Open Mission Viejo Spring 2025: 9.16Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 9.91West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 9.95Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 13.04UCLA Summer 2025: 9.01UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 8.67Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025: 9.09Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 8.95Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025: 11.27UCSD Unofficial Events 2025: 7.97Huntington Park Winter 2025: 10.88Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 11.73Super Duper San Diego 2026: 8.59Agoura Winter 2026: 10.20Simi Mini A 2026: 11.58UCLA Spring 2026: 9.53City of STEM LA 2026: 9.94West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 8.55Agoura Summer 2026: 9.91Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 8.93Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 9.267.9728.7930 Mar 202422 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 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.97 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.