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Noah Hould

3×3 · top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025HOUL01

Noah Hould has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.42, set at Hampton Beach Summer 2026, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,270th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since January 2025, he has put 136 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.68 in January 2025 to 9.42, a 69% improvement. Noah has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.42
signature single · Hampton Beach Summer 2026
136
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.4211.25
top 5.9%3,270 / 59,724
2×23.054.51
top 14.8%5,810 / 40,951
Pyraminx6.2910.18
top 22.1%5,956 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed25.5130.73
top 35.6%4,696 / 15,683
Megaminx1:49.781:54.68
top 40.2%2,908 / 7,841
4×41:08.231:09.76
top 45.1%7,496 / 19,072
5×52:31.842:42.26
top 66.6%5,811 / 9,401
Clock29.40
early days — 2 solves7,427 / 8,927

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

The Battle of Lexington 2025: 30.68Cubing at Hampton Beach 2025: 25.91Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 16.29Loon Cubikon NH 2025: 11.73The Battle of Concord MA 2026: 11.59WPI Spring 2026: 10.25Hampton Beach Summer 2026: 9.429.4230.6811 Jan 20251 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.42 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.