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Joshua Broderick Phillips

3×3 · top 0.35% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2014 · 2014PHIL02

Joshua Broderick Phillips has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.74, set at The Battle of Concord 2024, puts him in the top 0.35% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 235th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 51 competitions since March 2014, he has put 2,474 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.11 in March 2014 to 5.74, a 64% improvement. Joshua has entered 51 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.35% of 288,433 all-time
5.74
signature single · The Battle of Concord 2024
2,474
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.747.25
top 0.35%235 / 60,666
2×20.971.67
top 0.5%208 / 41,674
Pyraminx1.792.86
top 0.81%240 / 29,168
3×3 one-handed9.6212.74
top 0.83%128 / 15,900
4×425.6229.67
top 0.89%151 / 19,354
Megaminx40.2443.12
top 1.7%122 / 8,026
Skewb2.224.27
top 2.0%297 / 19,164
Square-17.859.81
top 2.8%209 / 6,846
5×51:52.552:02.63
top 44.5%3,711 / 9,537
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves—
early days — 2 solves1,117 / 2,059

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

Williams Winter 2014: 16.11Yale Spring 2014: 15.61Lexington Spring 2014: 16.22US Nationals 2014: 10.99GCC Fall 2014: 11.59Harvard Fall 2014: 11.21Lexington Fall 2014: 13.09MIT Fall 2014: 11.63Williams Winter 2015: 9.65Lexington Spring 2015: 11.64US Nationals 2016: 8.57Quabbin Open 2016: 9.32Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 7.69WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 8.33Weston Spring 2017: 8.00Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 8.17Quabbin Spring 2017: 7.57CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.64Weston Fall 2017: 7.72BA Cube Fest 2018: 6.65WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 7.65BU Spring 2018: 7.81CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 7.42Quizzical Quabbin Qualifier 2018: 6.14CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 7.36MIT Fall 2018: 6.93Boston University Winter 2019: 7.23CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 6.43BA Four 2019: 6.15CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 6.26Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 7.03Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 7.64The Battle of Lexington 2024: 6.02The Battle of Concord 2024: 5.74A Morning in Cambridge 2024: 6.55Lexington Weeknights V 2024: 7.01CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 5.78Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 7.32The Battle of Lexington 2025: 6.53Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 6.23The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 6.49Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.60CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 6.04The Battle of Concord MA 2026: 6.20Seabrook Open 2026: 6.92CubingUSA New England Championship 2026: 6.475.7416.221 Mar 201416 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.

  • Derek White — met in 256 rounds, finished ahead 222 times
  • Will Russo — met in 238 rounds, finished ahead 210 times
  • Alex Cohen — met in 209 rounds, finished ahead 198 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.