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Joshua Holmes

3×3 · top 19.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2020 · 2020WILB01

Joshua Holmes has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.61, set at Space City Summer 2023, puts him in the top 19.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,538th in the United States. Across 17 competitions since January 2020, he has put 205 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.45 in January 2020 to 13.61, a 52% improvement. Joshua has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 19.6% of 284,439 all-time
13.61
signature single · Space City Summer 2023
205
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×313.6115.53
top 19.6%10,538 / 59,724
2×23.765.25
top 23.5%9,207 / 40,951
4×41:17.37
early days — 2 solves9,130 / 19,072

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

Houston Winter 2020: 28.45Trinity Valley Spring 2020: 27.82Cubing Is A Sport Frisco PM 2021: 17.77CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 18.66DFW Cubing Spring 2023: 13.99Space City Summer 2023: 13.61Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 15.74Cube Against Cancer Texas 2024: 16.86Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 16.20DFW Back to School 2024: 15.36Brazos Cubing Fall 2024: 16.98Space City Winter TX 2025: 15.48The Heart of Texas 2025: 14.20Cube Against Cancer Houston 2025: 14.89Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 17.72Space City Fall TX 2025: 13.98Brazos Cubing Winter 2026: 17.4513.6128.4525 Jan 202018 Jan 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.61 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.