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Landon Powell

3×3 · top 6.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025POWE06

Landon Powell has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.78, set at TJHSST Winter 2026, puts him in the top 6.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,826th in the United States. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since June 2025, he has put 380 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.90 in June 2025 to 9.78, a 48% improvement. Landon has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.9% of 288,433 all-time
9.78
signature single · TJHSST Winter 2026
380
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.7813.51
top 6.9%3,826 / 60,666
2×23.085.64
top 15.2%6,047 / 41,674
5×51:14.771:24.56
top 15.3%1,194 / 9,537
4×444.4047.06
top 17.6%2,699 / 19,354
Pyraminx5.839.51
top 18.8%5,080 / 29,168
7×73:55.874:13.39
top 29.1%827 / 3,236
6×62:40.332:42.40
top 31.0%1,112 / 4,262
Skewb7.9810.34
top 41.2%7,254 / 19,164
3×3 one-handed27.9136.27
top 41.8%5,680 / 15,900
Square-127.6138.60
top 44.9%2,955 / 6,846
Megaminx2:08.352:27.09
top 50.4%3,835 / 8,026
Clock16.0518.11
top 52.1%4,393 / 9,172

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

TJHSST Spring 2025: 18.90Virginia Championship 2025: 17.05ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 13.92Ephrata Fall 2025: 13.16Virginia Beach Fall 2025: 14.07Fredericksburg Winter PM 2026: 12.82TJHSST Winter 2026: 9.78Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 12.62Virginia Beach Spring 2026: 13.88RVA Spring 2026: 12.41Colonial Cube Clash VA 2026: 12.53Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.78Williamsburg Open Fall 2026: 11.15Virginia Championship 2026: 12.539.7818.907 Jun 202517 Oct 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.

  • Ryland Wilson — met in 70 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Griffin Kim — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
  • Fiona Bao — met in 64 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.78 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.