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Neel Gore

3×3 blindfolded · top 1.3% of 12,178 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016GORE02

Neel Gore has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 19.96, set at West LA Winter 2020, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in the United States. Until November 2016, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 61 competitions since April 2016, he has put 1,285 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.78 in April 2016 to 8.39, a 58% improvement. Neel has entered 61 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 1.3% of 12,178 all-time
19.96
signature single · West LA Winter 2020
1,285
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 blindfolded19.9625.79
top 1.3%29 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind28 of 29 cubes · 58:27—
top 2.0%18 / 731
2×21.573.31
top 2.5%970 / 40,951
4×4 blindfolded1:59.88—
top 2.6%10 / 440
3×38.3910.47
top 3.5%1,991 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed13.4016.66
top 5.1%719 / 15,683
Megaminx1:07.951:21.26
top 14.4%976 / 7,841
4×442.4646.07
top 15.0%2,260 / 19,072
Square-114.4318.46
top 15.1%1,018 / 6,743
5×5 blindfolded9:07.88—
top 18.1%36 / 218
5×51:23.241:33.10
top 21.8%1,687 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves38.67
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
Pyraminx10.1012.67
top 53.8%15,698 / 28,708
6×63:36.654:02.28
top 57.4%2,187 / 4,196
Skewb11.1414.49
top 61.6%11,362 / 18,907
7×75:39.065:55.54
top 62.3%1,865 / 3,184

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

Berkeley Spring 2016: 19.78Bay Area Speedcubin' 9 2016: 16.09Berkeley Summer 2016: 14.62Berkeley Fall 2016: 12.78Armin Open 2017: 11.97Berkeley Winter 2017: 11.03MVCS Spring 2017: 10.83Qualifornia 2017: 12.37Berkeley Spring 2017: 12.66Bay Area Speedcubin' 10 2017: 11.376.25 Bay Area 2017: 11.72CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 10.02San Ramon 2017: 8.65Berkeley Summer 2017: 10.19Longhorn Cube Day 2017: 10.29South Enough 2018: 9.22Berkeley Winter 2018: 9.72Bay Area Speedcubin' 11 2018: 9.32Berkeley Spring 2018: 9.71CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 9.62Maryland 2018: 9.93West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 9.66West Coast Cubing Tour - Cupertino 2018: 9.02CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.86Bay Area Speedcubin' 14 2019: 8.91Bay Area Speedcubin' 16 2019: 10.14Warm Up Sydney 2019: 9.79CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.39Bay Area Speedcubin' 22 2019: 9.16UCSD Winter 2020: 9.99West LA Winter 2020: 8.82San Diego Spring 2022: 11.43A Bruin Cube Day 2022: 10.47Berkeley Summer 2022: 9.91Marshall Middle Slice 2022: 9.03CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.90UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 10.43Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.16Berkeley Fall 2025: 9.54Berkeley November Weekday 2025: 9.88Berkeley Favorites 2026: 10.078.3919.7810 Apr 20161 Mar 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 blindfolded single — 19 people have one; it is 4.96 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.