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Melanie Barber
3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022BARB01
Melanie Barber has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.00, set at Baton Rouge Winter A 2025, puts her in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 812th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since January 2022, she has put 581 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 8.69 in January 2022 to 7.00, a 19% improvement. Melanie has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% 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 | 7.00 | 9.59 | top 1.3% | 812 / 59,724 | |
| Megaminx | 39.64 | 44.25 | top 1.5% | 96 / 7,841 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.30 | 4.66 | top 1.7% | 450 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.02 | 21.81 | top 10.3% | 1,358 / 15,683 | |
| Square-1 | 12.61 | 16.42 | top 11.1% | 774 / 6,743 | |
| 4×4 | 40.44 | 47.85 | top 12.6% | 1,857 / 19,072 | |
| 2×2 | 3.11 | 4.11 | top 15.5% | 6,071 / 40,951 | |
| 5×5 | 1:28.21 | 1:35.62 | top 25.8% | 2,019 / 9,401 |
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
- 22 Jun 2024Five personal bests in one day at Louisiana Championship 2024.
- 9 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at Bayou Big Cubes 2024.
- 22 Jan 2022First competition: Baton Rouge Winter 2022. A 8.69 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cajun Cube Clash 2026 · 29 Aug 2026
- LA Summer Throwdown 2026 · 27 Jun 2026
- LA Low and Slow 2026 · 21 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Baton Rouge Winter 2026 · 2 Jan 2026
- LA Unorthodox Twistgiving 2025 · 29 Nov 2025
- Louisiana Mega Two Day 2025 · 23 Aug 2025
- Assumption Mustang Cubing 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Baton Rouge Winter A 2025 · 3 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Louisiana Championship 2024 · 22 Jun 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Bayou Big Cubes 2024 · 9 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Louisiana Mega Two Day 2023 · 17 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Bayou Big Cubes 2023 · 4 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Baton Rouge Winter 2023 · 7 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Baton Rouge Winter 2022 · 22 Jan 2022
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.
- Ordway Persyn — met in 110 rounds, finished ahead 55 times
- Dylan Miller — met in 99 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Seth Talbot — met in 94 rounds, finished ahead 57 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
- A sub-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 9.64 away.
Targets move as she improves.