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Katie Hinkley

Megaminx · top 1.7% of 34,786 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016HINK01

Katie Hinkley has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the Megaminx: a personal-best single of 40.57, set at KCKC 7 Big and Awkward 2025, puts her in the top 1.7% of the 34,786 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 123rd in the United States. Until August 2014, no official Megaminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 38 competitions since September 2016, she has put 1,255 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.40 in September 2016 to 7.91, a 41% improvement. Katie has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Megaminx
best event — top 1.7% of 34,786 all-time
40.57
signature single · KCKC 7 Big and Awkward 2025
1,255
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Megaminx40.5745.90
top 1.7%123 / 7,841
3×37.919.99
top 2.6%1,523 / 59,724
4×430.6837.59
top 3.3%523 / 19,072
5×51:00.201:09.24
top 5.6%462 / 9,401
Pyraminx4.296.78
top 9.1%2,372 / 28,708
Skewb5.028.17
top 18.3%2,905 / 18,907
6×62:16.032:24.91
top 18.5%657 / 4,196
2×23.844.51
top 24.4%9,576 / 40,951
7×73:45.864:02.98
top 25.6%722 / 3,184
3×3 one-handed28.6840.28
top 43.6%5,878 / 15,683
Clock17.9635.99
top 58.6%4,908 / 8,927

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

KCubing Summer 2016: 13.40Marrs Mixup Winter 2017: 12.36Heartland Championships 2017: 11.78KCubing Fall 2017: 10.43Cubing 4 Kids 2018: 12.12BarbeCubing Fall 2018: 11.76Oklahoma Open 2019: 10.83CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 11.68Oklahoma 2020: 8.90Rocky Top 2021: 8.39CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2022: 9.91Cashew Cubing 2022: 9.23Kansas City Krazy Cubing 2022: 9.37Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2022: 9.71Springfield Winter Open 2023: 9.37KC Krazy Cubing Winter 2023: 9.35Wichita Art Museum Winter 2023: 9.88Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023: 9.42CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 9.11Springfield Summer Open 2023: 8.31Concordia Turning Fall 2023: 9.78Red Wolf Cubing Arkansas 2024: 9.63CoMO Cubing Winter 2024: 9.07Concordia Turning Spring 2024: 10.27Missouri Summer Kickoff 2024: 9.29CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2024: 9.42Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.79Missouri Championship 2024: 8.40Arkansolve Fall 2024: 10.80Concordia Turning Fall 2024: 9.22St. Louis Spring 2025: 9.76Land of Lincoln 2025: 8.89Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.00Missouri Championship 2025: 7.91COMO Cube-Off 2026: 8.32Missouri Championship 2026: 9.127.9113.4010 Sep 20167 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-40 Megaminx single — 557 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.91 away.

Targets move as she improves.