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Joseph Zaiden

3×3 · top 4.3% of 288,433 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 4.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,411th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since June 2024, he has put 797 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 36,406 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 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.3% of 288,433 all-time
8.73
signature single · Cookeville Cube Challenge 2026
797
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.7310.99
top 4.3%2,411 / 60,666
2×22.343.48
top 7.4%2,983 / 41,674
Pyraminx4.636.81
top 11.0%2,907 / 29,168
4×445.9851.25
top 19.6%3,013 / 19,354
Skewb6.109.07
top 26.6%4,382 / 19,164
Megaminx1:39.131:43.86
top 34.2%2,482 / 8,026
3×3 one-handed25.1632.91
top 34.7%4,639 / 15,900
Clock12.6214.14
top 37.9%3,077 / 9,172
5×51:47.881:57.23
top 41.2%3,384 / 9,537
Square-130.5543.79
top 50.4%3,348 / 6,846
6×64:44.50—
top 78.3%3,170 / 4,262

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: 10.67Florida Championship 2026: 10.53Alabama Championship 2026: 10.20GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2026: 9.498.7331.8816 Jun 20244 Oct 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.