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Keaton Ellis

3×3 one-handed · top 0.092% of 73,695 all-time · competing since January 2012 · 2012ELLI01

Keaton Ellis has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 7.26, set at Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019, puts him in the top 0.092% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in the United States. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 151 competitions since January 2012, he has put 6,509 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.80 in January 2012 to 5.08, a 66% improvement. Keaton has entered 151 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.092% of 73,695 all-time
7.26
signature single · Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019
6,509
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed7.2611.15
top 0.092%12 / 15,683
3×35.087.20
top 0.14%92 / 59,724
2×21.002.78
top 0.55%229 / 40,951
4×426.6631.33
top 1.2%213 / 19,072
Skewb2.493.93
top 2.8%418 / 18,907
5×554.021:00.81
top 3.0%251 / 9,401
Megaminx49.7258.51
top 5.0%356 / 7,841
Pyraminx3.595.63
top 5.8%1,501 / 28,708
6×61:46.371:51.73
top 5.9%204 / 4,196
7×72:47.492:49.94
top 7.1%192 / 3,184
Square-110.8014.80
top 7.5%549 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves29.67
top 8.0%187 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded1:38.212:15.94
top 25.9%543 / 2,092
Clock10.6212.53
top 28.2%2,173 / 8,927
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 16:40—
early days — 3 solves384 / 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

River Hill Winter 2012: 14.80Harvard Spring 2012: 15.52River Hill Summer 2012: 12.02River Hill Winter 2013: 10.03Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2013: 8.86Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2013: 9.68Slow 'n Steady Fall 2013: 9.78Starlight Open 2013: 8.87River Hill Winter 2014: 8.66Virginia Open Spring 2014: 9.18US Nationals 2014: 8.20River Hill Summer 2014: 8.38Carnegie Mellon Fall 2014: 7.03Virginia Open Fall 2014: 7.87Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 8.63River Hill Winter 2015: 7.95Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 7.90Virginia Open Spring 2015: 7.61Doylestown Spring 2015: 7.33Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2015: 8.65Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 7.55US Nationals 2015: 7.31Norwich Summer 2015: 7.77Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 7.79ODU Big Blue Open 2015: 6.05Virginia Open Fall 2015: 7.15River Hill Fall 2015: 5.09South East Texas Open 2016: 6.71Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 6.83Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 6.70Princeton Winter 2016: 7.19Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 7.15Virginia Open Spring 2016: 6.93ODU Big Blue Spring 2016: 7.02Severna Park Spring 2016: 7.73Northeastern Spring 2016: 6.76Cube For A Cure Spring 2016: 5.93Cube4Cam 2016: 6.82Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 7.92Lexington Summer 2016: 7.05European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 6.68Melrose Summer 2016: 7.15US Nationals 2016: 7.18New York City Summer 2016: 7.32Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 7.19Princeton Fall 2016: 6.99Severna Park Fall 2016: 7.09TJHSST Fall 2016: 6.91Clifton Winter 2017: 7.47Rockville Winter 2017: 6.89Osijek Open 2017: 8.05Hungarian Nationals 2017: 7.37Slovakian Cube Day 2017: 7.75SSL 2 Stockholm 2017: 6.51Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 6.60Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 5.08World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 6.37Severna Park Summer 2017: 6.63Gobbler Cube Day 2017: 6.79Princeton Fall 2017: 6.95Maryland 2017: 7.29UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 7.66TJHSST Fall 2017: 5.93Northern Neck Winter 2018: 5.83Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 7.40Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 7.18NovaCube 2018: 6.86WFS Cubing Spring 2018: 7.23CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 5.94Maryland 2018: 7.19First State 2018: 6.89WCA European Championship 2018: 5.73Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 6.53Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 6.97TJHSST Fall 2018: 6.60Northern Neck Winter 2019: 6.93Gobbler Cube Day Winter 2019: 6.65CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 6.45Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 7.12Woodberry Forest School Cubing 2019: 6.33Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 7.00Virginia Qualifier 2019: 6.68River Hill Spring 2019: 6.71Richmond Spring 2019: 7.07Warm Up Sydney 2019: 8.02WCA World Championship 2019: 6.73CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 5.83Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 6.99Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019: 6.00Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 7.50Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019: 6.24TJHSST Fall 2019: 6.86Florida Winter Break 2019: 6.25Northern Neck Winter 2020: 7.06MLWGS Winter 2020: 6.55Scranton Scramble 2020: 5.98Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 7.02Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 7.13Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 5.95Happy Valley Spring 2022: 7.26Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 6.55River Hill Spring 2022: 6.89Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 7.25Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 7.30Silver Spring Summer 2022: 7.78Pretzel Mania 2022: 7.04Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 7.05River Hill Fall 2022: 6.66Happy Valley Fall 2022: 6.54West Chester Fall 2022: 6.67Crystal City Winter 2023: 6.38Pretzel Mania 2023: 6.67Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 5.58Warwick Cube Day 2023: 6.23CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.02Berkeley Summer 2023: 6.43Davis Fall 2023: 6.60Bay Area Speedcubin' 54 Live - SSF 2023: 7.25Davis Winter 2024: 6.93Stevenage Newcomers Saturday 2024: 6.83Bay Area Speedcubin' 58 - Berkeley 2024: 6.24Berkeley Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 5.63Berkeley Spring 2024: 7.88Berkeley Summer 2024: 6.98Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.94Bay Area Speedcubin' 65 - Berkeley 2024: 7.12Berkeley October Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 7.04Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 6.58Happy Valley Spring PA 2025: 7.44Berkeley April Weekday Tricubealon 2025: 6.48Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.13Spark Melbourne July 2025: 6.76Puzzling Pakenham Sunday 2025: 6.76Australian Nationals 2025: 5.74Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 7.20Melbourne Summer 2026: 7.12North-East Melbourne March Saturday 2026: 6.835.0815.5221 Jan 20127 Mar 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-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.26 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.