People · United Kingdom
Leah Pearl
3×3 · top 6.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022PEAR04
Leah Pearl has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.51, set at Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025, puts her in the top 6.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 463rd in the United Kingdom. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since July 2022, she has put 317 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 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. Her 3×3 best has come down from 16.33 in July 2022 to 9.51, a 42% improvement. Leah has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United Kingdom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.51 | 12.05 | top 6.1% | 463 / 6,689 | |
| Skewb | 4.72 | 7.52 | top 16.1% | 378 / 2,421 | |
| Clock | 10.34 | 11.55 | top 26.8% | 358 / 1,232 | |
| 4×4 | 55.16 | 57.66 | top 30.9% | 691 / 2,071 | |
| 2×2 | 5.13 | 6.03 | top 40.9% | 2,147 / 4,895 | |
| 5×5 | 1:48.04 | 2:05.81 | top 41.2% | 512 / 1,151 | |
| Pyraminx | 8.74 | 13.43 | top 42.6% | 1,734 / 3,656 | |
| Square-1 | 26.78 | 37.72 | top 43.0% | 378 / 778 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 31.64 | 36.34 | top 50.4% | 895 / 1,851 |
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
- 7 Jun 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.60 at Stevenage June 2025.
- 25 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Stevenage January 2025.
- 6 Jul 2024Five personal bests in one day at Stevenage July 2024.
- 3 Jun 2023Three personal bests in one day at Peterborough Summer 2023.
- 18 Feb 2023First sub-15 3×3: 13.88 at Brent Cross Winter 2023.
- 9 Jul 2022First competition: Stevenage Summer 2022. A 17.32 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Stevenage July 2026 · 11 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Stevenage 10th Anniversary 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Stevenage June 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Leeds Spring 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
- Stevenage January 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Mind Sports Olympiad London 2024 · 22 Aug 2024
- Stevenage July 2024 · 6 Jul 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Stevenage Newcomers Sunday 2024 · 10 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Harrow Autumn 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Mind Sports Olympiad Cubing 2023 · 24 Aug 2023
- Edinburgh Summer 2023 · 15 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Peterborough Summer 2023 · 3 Jun 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Wakefield Spring 2023 · 1 Apr 2023
- Brent Cross Winter 2023 · 18 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Stevenage Summer 2022 · 9 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Sam Spendla — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
- Felix Hincks — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Ryan Chan — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.51 away.
- A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
Targets move as she improves.