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Lydia Workman

7×7 · top 1.3% of 14,226 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018WORK01

Lydia Workman has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 7×7: a personal-best single of 2:10.96, set at Nebraska Championship 2024, puts her in the top 1.3% of the 14,226 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 37th in the United States. Until July 2017, no official 7×7 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 78 competitions since April 2018, she has put 4,055 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 26.04 in April 2018 to 8.43, a 68% improvement. Lydia has entered 78 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

7×7
best event — top 1.3% of 14,226 all-time
2:10.96
signature single · Nebraska Championship 2024
4,055
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
7×72:10.962:25.47
top 1.3%37 / 3,184
6×61:28.041:39.66
top 1.6%58 / 4,196
5×551.0258.84
top 2.0%163 / 9,401
2×21.794.17
top 3.5%1,386 / 40,951
3×38.4310.38
top 3.6%2,034 / 59,724
4×431.7436.46
top 4.0%639 / 19,072
Skewb3.326.27
top 6.7%1,031 / 18,907
Pyraminx4.076.55
top 8.0%2,050 / 28,708
Square-111.3118.83
top 8.5%609 / 6,743
Megaminx57.361:06.83
top 8.6%589 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed18.6625.76
top 16.9%2,183 / 15,683
Clock11.3413.82
top 31.8%2,489 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves47.67
top 48.3%1,031 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded6:05.39—
early days — 2 solves1,811 / 2,092

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

CubeIowa 2018: 26.04Central Arkansas Summer 2018: 18.80Sioux Falls Summer 2018: 17.28Respect Kansas 2018: 15.43Oklahoma Open 2019: 15.00BarbeCubing Spring 2019: 12.47Ready For Summer Frisco 2019: 13.61OU Winter 2019: 10.47DFW NxN Winter 2020: 12.50Colorado Springs Winter 2020: 11.46Oklahoma Fall PM 2021: 12.61Kansas Cubing Open Winter 2022: 11.46Ohio State Expo Open 2022: 11.04DFW Cubing Spring 2022: 12.03Kansas Cubing Open Spring 2022: 13.15Wyoming Summer 2022: 10.47Cashew Cubing 2022: 11.86Pueblo Puzzling 2022: 11.93Kansas City Krazy Cubing 2022: 10.68Cube More in Ardmore 2022: 10.99Cube Even More in Wichita 2022: 11.87Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2022: 10.80Springfield Winter Open 2023: 11.19KC Krazy Cubing Winter 2023: 11.14Wichita Art Museum Winter 2023: 9.85Arkansolve 2023: 10.84Nebraska Heartland Warmup 2023: 10.72Twisters in Tulsa 2023: 13.06Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023: 11.35CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 11.16Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2023: 10.02Air Capital Cubing Summer 2023: 13.24Battle at Fort Hays Kansas 2023: 11.61Icelandic Nationals 2023: 10.64Lawton OKtoberfest Fall 2023: 10.44KCKC 3 Cubing for Cake 2023: 10.82Oklahoma Fall 2023: 10.99UCO Cubing Winter 2024: 12.25OKC Cube-Off Winter 2024: 11.64Wichita Family ArtVenture 2024: 10.87Going Fast in Grandview 2024: 9.32K-State Cubing Spring 2024: 10.01Nebraska Championship 2024: 9.55Kansas Championship 2024: 9.55CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2024: 10.33Oklahoma Championship 2024: 10.94Oklahoma Afternoon Twist 2024: 11.05Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.00CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 10.05KS Air Capital Cubing 2024: 10.87Battle at Fort Hays KS 2024: 11.31Wichita Speedcubing Fall 2024: 10.69Arkansolve Fall 2024: 10.35OKC Holiday Cube-Off 2024: 10.51Honolulu Hoʻoilo 2025: 9.45Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025: 11.55Welcome Back Tulsa 2025: 11.18Wichita Art Museum 2025: 11.43Nebraska Championship 2025: 11.05Oklahoma Championship 2025: 10.01Kansas Championship 2025: 11.11CubingUSA Southern Championship 2025: 11.10Lawrence Summer 2025: 10.64Kansas Air Capital Cubing 2025: 11.44Lawton OKtoberfest 2025: 8.43Wichita Art Museum 2026: 11.63Nebraska Championship 2026: 13.167x7 Off I-70 MO 2026: 11.74Oklahoma Championship 2026: 10.84Wichita Air Capital Cubing 2026: 11.64Kansas Championship 2026: 13.098.4326.0414 Apr 201814 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 her.

  • Ryan Pilat — met in 411 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
  • Jake Maddox — met in 336 rounds, finished ahead 67 times
  • Zachary Walden — met in 295 rounds, finished ahead 125 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2:00 7×7 single — 83 people have one; it is 10.96 away.
  • A sub-1:00 6×6 single — 2 people have one; it is 28.04 away.

Targets move as she improves.