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JP Bulman

3×3 · top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2013 · 2013BULM01

JP Bulman has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.00, set at WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017, puts him in the top 2.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,607th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 53 competitions since September 2013, he has put 1,920 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.98 in September 2013 to 8.00, a 65% improvement. JP has entered 53 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.00
signature single · WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017
1,920
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.0010.66
top 2.8%1,607 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.794.38
top 3.0%796 / 28,708
2×22.312.73
top 7.1%2,838 / 40,951
Square-110.6120.93
top 7.2%525 / 6,743
Skewb3.655.36
top 8.6%1,328 / 18,907
4×439.6947.90
top 11.8%1,737 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed19.8425.22
top 20.1%2,580 / 15,683
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves35.67
top 20.4%446 / 2,040
5×51:26.391:36.84
top 24.4%1,900 / 9,401
Megaminx1:48.982:10.22
top 39.8%2,873 / 7,841
Clock13.2415.74
top 40.7%3,240 / 8,927
6×63:17.813:45.29
top 49.4%1,852 / 4,196
3×3 blindfolded3:07.90—
top 54.7%1,157 / 2,092
7×75:49.345:58.80
top 65.0%1,964 / 3,184
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 5 cubes · 46:08—
top 90.0%672 / 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

CCFC Fall 2013: 22.98Lexington Fall 2013: 20.05Lexington Spring 2014: 16.22US Nationals 2014: 12.44Harvard Fall 2014: 14.78Lexington Fall 2014: 13.18MIT Fall 2014: 14.43Lexington Spring 2015: 11.56MIT Spring 2015: 10.62Melrose Spring 2015: 11.60US Nationals 2015: 10.77Norwich Summer 2015: 12.30Lexington Fall 2015: 12.41Northeastern Fall 2015: 11.54MIT Fall 2015: 10.90Sharon Winter 2016: 10.03Melrose Winter 2016: 9.53Weston Spring 2016: 11.02Lexington Summer 2016: 10.60Melrose Summer 2016: 9.87US Nationals 2016: 11.61Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 9.27WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 9.21Weston Spring 2017: 10.25Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 9.78Lexington Summer 2017: 9.55CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.25WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017: 8.00Weston Fall 2017: 9.03Cubing with the Viking 2017: 10.26Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 10.02WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 8.81BU Spring 2018: 8.45CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 9.71The Battle of Lexington 2018: 10.09Boston University Winter 2019: 9.90Massachusetts Championship 2019: 9.92Saint John's Spring 2022: 9.15Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022: 9.90CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 8.99Garden City Winter 2023: 10.33Saint John's Scramble 2023: 9.89Sydney Summer 2023: 12.33Stockholmsligan 380: Det Hänger på Håret - 2024: 12.82The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 12.948.0022.9821 Sep 201326 Apr 2025

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 2.00 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.