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Liam Strauch

3×3 · top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022STRA07

Liam Strauch has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.48, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, 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 18 competitions since October 2022, he has put 779 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.27 in October 2022 to 7.48, a 61% improvement. Liam has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.9% of 284,439 all-time
7.48
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
779
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.4810.11
top 1.9%1,157 / 59,724
Square-19.2913.40
top 4.9%359 / 6,743
Clock5.386.05
top 5.4%425 / 8,927
4×433.8841.74
top 5.7%882 / 19,072
Skewb3.315.78
top 6.6%1,022 / 18,907
Pyraminx3.865.38
top 7.0%1,776 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed15.6819.17
top 9.5%1,257 / 15,683
2×22.573.37
top 9.6%3,790 / 40,951
Megaminx1:05.191:08.25
top 12.8%871 / 7,841
5×51:13.201:15.19
top 13.9%1,065 / 9,401
6×62:21.312:28.55
top 21.1%747 / 4,196
7×73:57.074:04.87
top 29.5%826 / 3,184

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

Mt. Prospect Open 2022: 19.27Naperville Winter A 2022: 13.01Washtenaw Spring A 2023: 11.62OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023: 11.48Naperville Summer 2023: 11.87DeKalb Cubing Fall 2023: 10.70Milwaukee Cubing Mania 2024: 10.30DuPage Winter 2024: 8.87Naperville Winter 2024: 9.37Muske-GO 2024: 10.95Chicago Area Twist Spring A 2024: 9.93Wisconsin Qualifier 2024: 9.96Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 10.26DuPage Fall 2024: 9.38Naperville Winter 2025: 9.35Racing Kane 2025: 9.10Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.487.4819.278 Oct 20223 Jul 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.48 away.
  • A sub-8 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 1.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.