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Melanie Barber
3×3 · top 1.3% of 288,433 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 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 837th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since January 2022, she has put 666 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 36,406 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 15 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% | 837 / 60,666 | |
| Megaminx | 39.64 | 44.25 | top 1.5% | 100 / 8,026 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.30 | 4.66 | top 1.7% | 454 / 29,168 | |
| 2×2 | 2.50 | 4.11 | top 9.0% | 3,564 / 41,674 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.02 | 20.96 | top 10.3% | 1,386 / 15,900 | |
| Square-1 | 12.61 | 16.42 | top 11.1% | 788 / 6,846 | |
| 4×4 | 39.44 | 44.83 | top 11.5% | 1,726 / 19,354 | |
| 5×5 | 1:28.21 | 1:35.29 | top 25.9% | 2,053 / 9,537 |
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
- 26 Sep 2026Three personal bests in one day at Louisiana Championship 2026.
- 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
- Louisiana Championship 2026 · 26 Sep 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- 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 126 rounds, finished ahead 65 times
- Dylan Miller — met in 112 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Seth Talbot — met in 108 rounds, finished ahead 67 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
- A sub-30 Megaminx single — 76 people have one; it is 9.64 away.
Targets move as she improves.