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Joseph Zaiden

3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024ZAID03

Joseph Zaiden has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.73, set at Cookeville Cube Challenge 2026, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,366th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since June 2024, he has put 652 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.88 in June 2024 to 8.73, a 73% improvement. Joseph has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.73
signature single · Cookeville Cube Challenge 2026
652
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.7311.55
top 4.2%2,366 / 59,724
2×22.344.10
top 7.4%2,922 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.636.81
top 11.0%2,854 / 28,708
4×445.9851.25
top 19.5%2,970 / 19,072
Skewb6.109.07
top 26.5%4,318 / 18,907
Megaminx1:41.841:58.29
top 35.7%2,545 / 7,841
Clock12.8914.14
top 39.2%3,115 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed30.0433.91
top 46.7%6,368 / 15,683
Square-132.2452.00
top 53.7%3,538 / 6,743
5×52:46.37—
top 73.2%6,483 / 9,401
6×65:36.39—
top 87.7%3,607 / 4,196

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

Bama Big Cubes 2024: 31.88T-Town Showdown AL 2024: 21.94Mississippi Cubing Dawgs 2024: 13.94Corinth Comic Con Cubing 2024: 15.46Coosa Cubing Clash 2024: 17.32Cubing on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 14.38Mississippi Championship 2025: 16.44Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025: 13.70Cubing in School Westminster 2025: 12.07CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 12.19Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.48Alabama Crimson Cubing Fall 2025: 14.41GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2025: 13.87Spookin' on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 12.47Gulf Shores 2025: 11.29Coosa Cubing Clash 2025: 11.08Vanderbilt Winter 2026: 11.08CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 10.92GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2026: 10.58The Loveliest Solves on the Plains Auburn 2026: 10.31Cookeville Cube Challenge 2026: 8.73Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.67Fort Payne Summer 2026: 10.678.7331.8816 Jun 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.

  • Katie Hull — met in 115 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Roman Wofford — met in 113 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Clay Moore — met in 106 rounds, finished ahead 15 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.