People · United States
Locke Phippen
3×3 · top 29.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024PHIP02
Locke Phippen has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.63, set at Utah Speedcubing Pride 2025, puts him in the top 29.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,689th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since August 2024, he has put 214 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 44.26 in August 2024 to 16.63, a 62% improvement. Locke has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 16.63 | 22.68 | top 29.9% | 16,689 / 60,666 | |
| Skewb | 6.83 | 10.68 | top 32.4% | 5,485 / 19,164 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.81 | 11.18 | top 34.7% | 9,943 / 29,168 | |
| Clock | 13.15 | 15.61 | top 40.3% | 3,276 / 9,172 | |
| 2×2 | 5.90 | 8.11 | top 49.9% | 20,627 / 41,674 | |
| Megaminx | 2:21.68 | — | top 57.4% | 4,416 / 8,026 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 36.80 | 42.08 | top 60.5% | 8,609 / 15,900 | |
| 4×4 | 1:26.82 | 1:59.56 | top 61.4% | 10,851 / 19,354 | |
| 5×5 | 2:35.39 | — | early days — 1 solve | 6,088 / 9,537 | |
| Square-1 | 47.89 | 1:13.17 | top 74.1% | 4,949 / 6,846 | |
| 6×6 | 8:01.51 | — | early days — 2 solves | 4,170 / 4,262 |
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
- 29 Nov 2025Four personal bests in one day at Utah Championship 2025.
- 7 Jun 2025Four personal bests in one day at Utah Speedcubing Pride 2025.
- 22 Mar 2025First sub-20 3×3: 19.77 at Utah Newcomers 2025.
- 22 Mar 2025Three personal bests in one day at Utah Newcomers 2025.
- 25 Jan 2025First sub-30 3×3: 27.22 at Utah Ice Cubing 2025.
- 24 Aug 2024First competition: Back to School Utah 2024. A 44.26 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Utah Puzzling for Awareness V Favorites 2026 · 11 Apr 2026
- Utah Newcomers 2026 · 21 Mar 2026
- Utah Snowball Bash 2025 · 13 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Championship 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Back to School Utah 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah Speedcubing Pride 2025 · 7 Jun 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Utah Newcomers 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubing with Dinosaurs Lehi 2025 · 8 Feb 2025
- Utah Ice Cubing 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah Cubing with Culture 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Back to School Utah 2024 · 24 Aug 2024
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.
- Damian Wilding — met in 52 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Akoy Gregory — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Kinshuk Adokar — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 70,740 people have one; it is 1.63 away.
- A sub-6 Skewb single — 19,128 people have one; it is 0.83 away.
Targets move as he improves.