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Kyle Solomon

3×3 · top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023SOLO05

Kyle Solomon has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.18, set at Arkansas Championship 2025, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,771st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since April 2023, he has put 744 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.02 in April 2023 to 8.18, a 61% improvement. Kyle has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.18
signature single · Arkansas Championship 2025
744
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.1810.33
top 3.1%1,771 / 59,724
2×21.713.02
top 3.1%1,221 / 40,951
4×432.8040.48
top 4.8%756 / 19,072
Pyraminx3.495.68
top 5.4%1,411 / 28,708
Skewb3.976.71
top 10.7%1,647 / 18,907
5×51:10.671:21.50
top 12.1%934 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed16.9818.56
top 12.5%1,622 / 15,683
Clock7.889.31
top 14.7%1,129 / 8,927
Megaminx1:15.111:23.95
top 18.8%1,272 / 7,841
6×62:43.802:55.73
top 32.9%1,172 / 4,196
7×74:38.035:16.89
top 43.8%1,266 / 3,184
Square-128.6733.69
top 46.9%3,059 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded3:15.86—
early days — 1 solve1,214 / 2,092

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

UIUC Spring 2023: 21.02Swallow Spring 2023: 16.47Springfield Summer Open 2023: 13.15Concordia Turning Fall 2023: 11.55Red Wolf Cubing Arkansas 2024: 11.60Concordia Turning Spring 2024: 9.77Missouri Summer Kickoff 2024: 9.53Bama Big Cubes 2024: 10.67CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 9.21Mississippi Cubing Dawgs 2024: 9.25Minxing in Memphis 2025: 8.76Arkansas Championship 2025: 8.18Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.98Magnolia State Cubing 2026: 9.51GAN Southern Championship 2026: 8.288.1821.021 Apr 202311 Jun 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 0.18 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.