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Oliver Bufkin

3×3 · top 37.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024BUFK01

Oliver Bufkin has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 19.26, set at Assumption Mustang Cubing 2025, puts him in the top 37.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 21,344th in the United States. Across 3 competitions since June 2024, he has put 46 official solves on the record across five events. His 3×3 best has come down from 36.75 in June 2024 to 19.26, a 48% improvement. Oliver has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 37.8% of 284,439 all-time
19.26
signature single · Assumption Mustang Cubing 2025
46
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×319.2624.94
top 37.8%21,344 / 59,724
2×26.277.28
top 53.6%21,882 / 40,951
Skewb12.1716.17
top 66.8%12,492 / 18,907
Pyraminx15.3817.86
top 83.2%24,553 / 28,708
Clock35.98
early days — 3 solves8,098 / 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

Louisiana Championship 2024: 36.75Baton Rouge Winter B 2025: 22.98Assumption Mustang Cubing 2025: 19.2619.2636.7522 Jun 202424 May 2025

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 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 4.26 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.