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Lex Edwards

3×3 · top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018EDWA01

Lex Edwards has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.48, set at Empire State Spring 2023, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,157th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since January 2018, he has put 580 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.65 in January 2018 to 7.48, a 45% improvement. Lex has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time
7.48
signature single · Empire State Spring 2023
580
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.488.82
top 1.9%1,157 / 59,724
2×21.482.67
top 2.1%825 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.485.07
top 2.1%564 / 28,708
5×556.171:04.86
top 3.8%316 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed13.4815.74
top 5.2%739 / 15,683
4×433.7138.36
top 5.6%849 / 19,072
Square-110.9615.20
top 7.9%573 / 6,743
Megaminx56.311:03.34
top 8.0%563 / 7,841
6×62:04.592:17.75
top 13.0%476 / 4,196
Skewb4.648.39
top 15.5%2,435 / 18,907
7×73:23.353:37.12
top 17.4%484 / 3,184
Clock19.1726.74
top 62.3%5,265 / 8,927

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

New York City Winter 2018: 13.65Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 13.04Hudson Valley Open 2018: 10.86Rutgers Spring 2018: 11.43North Plainfield Open 2018: 9.26CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 11.53Brooklyn 2018: 11.97CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 13.90Pennsylvania 2018: 13.16Kew Forest Open 2018: 11.35Princeton Fall 2018: 10.83Empire State Spring 2023: 7.48CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 9.28CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.73Brookhaven Summer 2025: 8.187.4813.9013 Jan 201823 Aug 2025

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.

  • Kymberlyn Calderon — met in 87 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • AJ Kamal — met in 82 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
  • Eva Kato — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead 6 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.48 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.