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LV Snell

Clock · top 4.5% of 32,817 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024SNEL02

LV Snell has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 5.06, set at UO Valentine's Day 2026, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 369th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since September 2024, he has put 734 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.97 in September 2024 to 11.09, a 47% improvement. LV has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 4.5% of 32,817 all-time
5.06
signature single · UO Valentine's Day 2026
734
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock5.066.31
top 4.5%369 / 9,172
Pyraminx4.086.62
top 8.1%2,110 / 29,168
Skewb3.716.09
top 9.1%1,410 / 19,164
2×22.633.83
top 10.3%4,093 / 41,674
3×311.0913.06
top 10.8%5,922 / 60,666
3×3 one-handed24.1326.90
top 31.9%4,205 / 15,900
Square-123.2147.30
top 35.3%2,315 / 6,846
4×41:05.501:15.33
top 42.4%7,059 / 19,354
5×52:13.032:21.47
top 57.3%4,934 / 9,537
Megaminx2:49.343:03.92
top 70.0%5,526 / 8,026
6×65:21.475:50.71
top 85.4%3,536 / 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

Kent Summer 2024: 20.97Olympia Fall 2024: 17.41Lakewood Fall 2024: 20.74Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024: 16.99Tacoma Winter 2025: 15.33Bellevue Squan Fest January 2025: 15.37Lakewood Newcomers 2025: 13.35Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025: 16.93Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025: 13.66Kent Spring 2025: 12.45Warm Up Seattle 2025: 14.11Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025: 14.29Battle Ground 2025: 12.25Oregon Championship 2025: 13.38Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025: 11.21Seattle Cube Cascade UW 2025: 12.81Oregon State Fall 2025: 13.15Portland in a Pyra Tree 2025: 11.40UO Valentine's Day 2026: 11.14McMinnville Favorites 2026: 12.55Oregon State Spring 2026: 11.94Kent Spring 2026: 11.09Seattle Summer 2026: 11.63Rose City OR 2026: 12.26Northwest Championship 2026: 11.1911.0920.977 Sep 202421 Aug 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 Clock single — 1,444 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.