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Kaleb Barrett

3×3 · top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2025 · 2025BARR26

Kaleb Barrett has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.12, set at Cube Against Cancer Houston 2026, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,869th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since August 2025, he has put 130 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.70 in August 2025 to 9.12, a 33% improvement. Kaleb has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.12
signature single · Cube Against Cancer Houston 2026
130
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.1213.61
top 5.1%2,869 / 59,724
4×442.2143.40
top 14.8%2,209 / 19,072
5×51:21.631:27.29
top 20.4%1,594 / 9,401
2×23.565.04
top 20.9%8,206 / 40,951
6×62:51.343:06.81
top 36.8%1,330 / 4,196
7×74:37.104:52.58
early days — 3 solves1,253 / 3,184
Square-127.4031.73
top 44.4%2,885 / 6,743
Megaminx3:02.15
early days — 2 solves5,874 / 7,841

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 Back to School 2025: 13.70Temple Cubing Winter 2026: 11.17The Heart of Texas Spring 2026: 12.61Cube Against Cancer Houston 2026: 9.12Hillister Cube Hustle 2026: 10.779.1213.709 Aug 202518 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 1.12 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 2.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.