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Kate Grahame

5×5 · top 0.11% of 40,792 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018GRAH05

Kate Grahame has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 39.13, set at Australian Nationals 2025, puts her in the top 0.11% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in the United States. Until July 2017, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 135 competitions since May 2018, she has put 7,113 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 19.43 in May 2018 to 5.92, a 70% improvement. Kate has entered 135 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 0.11% of 40,792 all-time
39.13
signature single · Australian Nationals 2025
7,113
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
5×539.1344.60
top 0.11%11 / 9,401
7×71:49.011:55.19
top 0.2%6 / 3,184
6×61:13.061:17.48
top 0.21%12 / 4,196
4×422.2727.57
top 0.22%39 / 19,072
3×35.927.30
top 0.44%294 / 59,724
2×21.021.71
top 0.59%248 / 40,951
Pyraminx1.653.13
top 0.61%185 / 28,708
Skewb1.644.03
top 0.63%102 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed10.5813.83
top 1.5%236 / 15,683
Clock4.276.04
top 2.9%246 / 8,927
Megaminx44.3251.25
top 2.9%199 / 7,841
Square-18.5010.83
top 3.7%276 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves25 moves30.00
top 5.1%118 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded48.4456.32
top 9.4%184 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind14 of 15 cubes · 58:24—
top 11.6%87 / 731
4×4 blindfolded5:59.787:34.27
top 28.8%120 / 440
5×5 blindfolded14:16.0019:23.00
top 37.7%77 / 218

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

CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2018: 19.43CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 15.05Hillsboro Open 2018: 13.27Yakima Valley Cubing Fall 2018: 14.16SnoCo Fall 2018: 16.43Puget Sound NxNxN 2018: 12.39PDX Cubing for Causes 2019: 11.76Oregon State 2019: 11.81CubingUSA Oregon Championship 2019: 12.32SnoCo Feet Fest 2019: 10.73Rose City 2019: 13.03Puget Sound Spring 2019: 10.72Lincoln City 2019: 10.34Yakima Valley Cubing Spring 2019: 12.48CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 10.36Indiana 2019: 9.83Yakima Side Events 2019: 9.79Flag City Fall 2019: 9.85UIUC Fall 2019: 10.02Indianapolis Cubes Winter 2019: 7.40No Shoes Kentucky 2019: 10.48UCSD Winter 2020: 10.38Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2020: 8.84Welcome Back Wisconsin 2 2021: 6.02Pittsburgh Fall 2021: 7.62Windy City New Year 2022: 8.19Bulldog Winter 2022: 7.63Gem City 2022: 8.06Bulldog Winter 2.0 2022: 7.61Ohio State Expo Open 2022: 6.67CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2022: 8.11Three Attempts Chicago 2022: 8.05Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 6.76NxNaperville 2022: 6.45Trentin Open 2022: 7.77CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 7.61Cubing Peoria 2022: 7.94New Kent On The Block 2022: 6.62UIUC Fall 2022: 7.84Rocky Top 2022: 7.02FMC in a Gem City Temple 2023: 6.55Washtenaw Winter 2023: 7.12Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 7.09Indiana Finally Returns 2023: 7.20Gem City Donuts and Dragons 2023: 6.86Washtenaw Qualifier 2023: 8.04CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 6.79Little Giant Open 2023: 7.44Bothell Summer 2023: 6.89CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.32Naperville Summer 2023: 7.31Corona Summer 2023: 6.88Irvine Fall 2023: 7.02UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 8.34Jurupa Valley Cubing Fall 2023: 7.01CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 7.66Thankful for Cubing RPV 2023: 7.94Nub Open Mission Viejo 2023: 7.34Poway Cubing Winter 2024: 7.37University Heights Cubing Winter 2024: 7.56USC Cubing 2024: 7.24Washtenaw Newcomers 2024: 6.87Orange County Newcomers 2024: 7.17Baja Spring 2024: 8.30UIUC Big Cubes Spring 2024: 6.49Santa Barbara Cubing 2024: 6.97Nub Open Yucaipa 2024: 6.72San Diego Big Cub 2024: 6.76Countless Cubes Chicagoland A 2024: 7.51Washtenaw Qualifiers 2024: 6.34Gem City Donut DNF 2024: 6.61Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.70CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 7.56La La Land 2024: 6.92Super Duper San Diego 2024: 7.19UCSB Cubing 2024: 7.24Temecula Valley Fall 2024: 7.08UCSD Fall 2024: 7.09CubeChella 2024: 7.73Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 7.83Ohio State Nearly New Years 2024: 6.46Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2025: 7.48Bay Area Side Events Day 2025: 7.33Baja Spring 2025: 6.61Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 6.27Agoura Side Events Day 2025: 7.23UCLA Spring 2025: 6.47Burbank Big Cubes 2025: 6.77Minxville Indiana 2025: 6.76Warm Up Seattle 2025: 7.58Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.702x2 in Tāmaki Makaurau 2025: 6.45Geelong Winter 2025: 7.88Beachside Auckland 2025: 7.80Australian Nationals 2025: 6.47New Zealand Cubing Decathlon 2025: 6.64NxNs in November - Ōtautahi 2025: 7.62Drury Summer 2025: 7.37Super Duper San Diego 2026: 7.79Agoura Winter 2026: 7.56Simi Mini B 2026: 6.88UCLA Spring 2026: 6.87Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 6.98Poly Cubed at Pomona 2026: 6.83UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 6.94Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 6.09Westerns Warmup Riverside A 2026: 7.53West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 7.04Agoura Summer 2026: 7.61Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.13Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 7.75Bay Area Speedcubin' 69 2026: 5.925.9219.4318 May 201829 Aug 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-30 5×5 single — 1 people have one; it is 9.13 away.
  • A sub-1:00 6×6 single — 2 people have one; it is 13.06 away.

Targets move as she improves.