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Melody Gowman

3×3 · top 69.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025GOWM02

Melody Gowman has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 34.54, set at Doing Time in Moundsville 2025, puts her in the top 69.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 42,215th in the United States. Across 3 competitions since May 2025, she has put 34 official solves on the record across three events. Her 3×3 best has come down from 39.22 in May 2025 to 34.54, a 12% improvement. Melody has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 69.8% of 284,439 all-time
34.54
signature single · Doing Time in Moundsville 2025
34
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×334.5445.00
top 69.8%42,215 / 59,724
Pyraminx14.2220.46
top 78.8%23,321 / 28,708
2×224.0927.87
top 97.5%40,242 / 40,951

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

Presidential Puzzles in PA 2025: 39.22Doing Time in Moundsville 2025: 34.54Presidential Puzzles in PA 2026: 46.9434.5446.9417 May 202516 May 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 4.54 away.
  • A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 86,891 people have one; it is 2.22 away.

Targets move as she improves.