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Joshua Beck

3×3 · top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014BECK03

Joshua Beck has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.28, set at Heartland Championships 2017, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,009th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since July 2014, he has put 1,049 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.55 in July 2014 to 7.28, a 65% improvement. Joshua has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.28
signature single · Heartland Championships 2017
1,049
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.288.66
top 1.7%1,009 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed12.8317.45
top 4.2%609 / 15,683
2×21.964.13
top 4.5%1,791 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.326.39
top 9.3%2,401 / 28,708
Skewb6.9510.90
top 33.3%5,576 / 18,907
4×41:01.001:16.37
top 37.5%6,065 / 19,072
3×3 blindfolded2:18.19—
top 39.4%829 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,178 / 2,040
Clock24.6130.21
top 76.0%6,654 / 8,927
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 24:46—
early days — 1 solve652 / 731

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

Michigan 2014: 20.55Indiana 2014: 20.44Florida Feast 2014: 15.99Lawrence Spring 2015: 11.43Field of Cubes 2015: 13.23Dixon Summer 2015: 12.33US Nationals 2015: 11.60Clock N' Other Stuff 2016: 9.81Saint Mary Scramble 2016: 9.47US Nationals 2016: 10.18Cubetcha 2016: 8.41Mega Minnesota Winter 2016: 8.72Iowa State Spring 2017: 9.15Minnesota Cube Melt 2017: 8.68CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.27Heartland Championships 2017: 7.28KCubing Fall 2017: 9.12North Iowa 2017: 7.99North Star Cubing Challenge 2018: 7.87CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2018: 9.11CubeIowa 2018: 7.74Minnesota Cube Melt 2018: 8.32CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 8.74Fargo Fall 2018: 8.64North Star Cubing Challenge 2019: 8.87West Branch 2019: 7.95CubeIowa 2019: 8.53Minnesota Cube Melt 2019: 7.88Minnesota Qualifier 2019: 8.40West Branch Summer 2019: 7.87Wolfpack Winter 2023: 9.47Concord Summer 2024: 10.30Bull City Summer NC 2024: 7.35NCSU Wolfpack 2024: 7.82Charlotte Winter 2025: 9.18Queen City NC 2025: 7.62NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 8.49Apex Algs Again 2026: 9.13Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.487.2820.5512 Jul 20142 Jul 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 1.28 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.