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Michael Lee

3×3 · top 0.12% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2019 · 2019LEEM04

Michael Lee has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.98, set at Idaho Championship 2024, puts him in the top 0.12% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 80th in the United States. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since December 2019, he has put 1,430 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.08 in December 2019 to 4.98, a 71% improvement. Michael has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.12% of 284,439 all-time
4.98
signature single · Idaho Championship 2024
1,430
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×34.986.41
top 0.12%80 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed9.8012.76
top 0.91%145 / 15,683
2×21.542.17
top 2.3%920 / 40,951
4×429.1735.85
top 2.3%383 / 19,072
Skewb2.523.97
top 3.0%449 / 18,907
Square-19.0211.78
top 4.5%335 / 6,743
5×558.171:07.05
top 4.6%380 / 9,401
Pyraminx3.415.32
top 5.1%1,333 / 28,708
Clock6.277.81
top 8.2%640 / 8,927
Megaminx1:12.071:21.55
top 16.9%1,152 / 7,841
6×62:16.012:21.71
top 18.5%655 / 4,196
7×73:26.903:43.54
top 18.7%531 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:36.35—
top 45.3%976 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves44.33
early days — 3 solves1,251 / 2,040

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

Keep Portland Weird 2019: 17.08PDX Cubing for Causes 2020: 15.96PLU NxN 2022: 6.33School's Out PLU 2022: 6.69Spokane Summer 2022: 5.57SnoCo Favorites 2022: 6.08SnoCo NxN 2022: 7.87Tri Cities Fall 2022: 6.38Washington Championship 2023: 7.48Lakewood Spring 2023: 5.73Stumptown Speedcubing Summer 2023: 6.83SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 6.31Spokane Summer 2023: 6.25Oregon Championship 2023: 6.99Odd Olympia 2023: 6.98Back To Tri-Cities 2024: 6.09Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 7.04PortlaNxNd 2024: 6.10Tacoma Summer 2024: 6.52Kent Summer 2024: 6.27Oregon Championship 2024: 6.17McMinnville Cubing Fall 2024: 5.95Idaho Championship 2024: 4.98Lakewood Fall 2024: 5.48Couve Cubing Fall 2024: 6.35Tacoma Winter 2025: 6.45Lakewood Newcomers 2025: 6.45Central Washington Evens 2025: 5.90Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025: 6.90Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025: 5.40Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.11Battle Ground 2025: 6.00Tri Cities Spring 2026: 5.71Lakewood Spring 2026: 5.47Oregon State Spring 2026: 5.394.9817.0814 Dec 20192 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 his.

  • Sameer Aggarwal — met in 162 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
  • Ash Black — met in 151 rounds, finished ahead 57 times
  • Max Siauw — met in 130 rounds, finished ahead 13 times

Next targets

  • A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.