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Joshua Burdick

3×3 · top 7.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2024 · 2024BURD04

Joshua Burdick has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.91, set at Ogunquit Winter 2025, puts him in the top 7.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,963rd in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since November 2024, he has put 625 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.21 in November 2024 to 9.91, a 39% improvement. Joshua has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.2% of 284,439 all-time
9.91
signature single · Ogunquit Winter 2025
625
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.9111.84
top 7.2%3,963 / 59,724
2×23.285.43
top 17.5%6,877 / 40,951
Megaminx1:26.041:47.42
top 25.6%1,768 / 7,841
4×452.3159.46
top 27.5%4,256 / 19,072
Clock10.5512.32
top 27.8%2,139 / 8,927
Skewb7.4016.44
top 36.7%6,272 / 18,907
Pyraminx9.0012.98
top 44.8%12,893 / 28,708
3×3 blindfolded2:53.273:34.02
top 50.6%1,077 / 2,092
3×3 one-handed32.4235.96
top 52.1%7,194 / 15,683
5×52:14.112:22.22
top 57.7%4,916 / 9,401
4×4 blindfolded10:05.0011:51.00
early days — 3 solves246 / 440
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 23:37—
early days — 1 solve562 / 731
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves—
top 83.5%1,683 / 2,040

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

Loon Cubikon 2024: 16.21Cubing at Hampton Beach 2025: 13.02Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 13.64The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 12.01WPI Spring 2025: 11.39Salem Cubikon 2025: 14.27Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 10.71Upper Valley Cube Day 2025: 11.76CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 11.36Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2025: 11.47Loon Cubikon NH 2025: 12.70New Hampshire Championship 2025: 13.04Ipswich Fall 2025: 12.23Ogunquit Winter 2025: 9.91The Battle of Concord MA 2026: 12.54UMass Spring 2026: 11.20Morrow Mixup Mania 2026: 12.63Wakefield MA Spring 2026: 10.87Fitchburg Spring 2026: 11.47WPI Spring 2026: 11.67Quabbin Spring 2026: 11.30Wells Dual 2026: 11.13Saint John's Summer 2026: 12.47Run & Cube 5K Cubikon NH 2026: 12.789.9116.2124 Nov 202415 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.91 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.