People · United States
Keith Norman Kerman
3×3 · top 9.2% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024KERM01
Keith Norman Kerman has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.57, set at Connecticut Championship 2025, puts him in the top 9.2% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,109th in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since June 2024, he has put 184 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.01 in June 2024 to 10.57, a 50% improvement. Keith has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.57 | 11.92 | top 9.2% | 5,109 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 3.38 | 4.65 | top 18.8% | 7,468 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.87 | 10.62 | top 26.8% | 7,455 / 29,168 | |
| 4×4 | 1:21.56 | — | top 57.3% | 10,017 / 19,354 | |
| Megaminx | 2:46.24 | — | early days — 3 solves | 5,420 / 8,026 | |
| 5×5 | 3:35.64 | — | top 87.6% | 8,284 / 9,537 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 21 Dec 2024Three personal bests in one day at Long Island Winter Solstice 2024.
- 19 Oct 2024First sub-15 3×3: 14.28 at M Moves in Middlebury 2024.
- 19 Oct 2024Three personal bests in one day at M Moves in Middlebury 2024.
- 27 Jul 2024First sub-20 3×3: 18.97 at Westport Summer 2024.
- 1 Jun 2024First competition: Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024. A 21.01 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Westport Summer 2026 · 27 Jun 2026
- Brookhaven Summer 2025 · 23 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Connecticut Championship 2025 · 26 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Lexington Weeknights III 2025 · 14 Jul 2025
- Connecticut Spring 2025 · 10 May 2025
- Kisco Cubing 2025 · 4 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Long Island Winter Solstice 2024 · 21 Dec 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- ALL1- Empire State 2024 · 2 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- M Moves in Middlebury 2024 · 19 Oct 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Westport Summer 2024 · 27 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024 · 1 Jun 2024
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.
- Rex Ozsvath — met in 39 rounds, never finished ahead
- Nico Ozsvath — met in 35 rounds, never finished ahead
- Eli Rogers — met in 29 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
Targets move as he improves.