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Oliver Yates

3×3 · top 25.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024YATE02

Oliver Yates has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.16, set at Land of Lincoln 2025, puts him in the top 25.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,579th in the United States. Across 3 competitions since August 2024, he has put 63 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 8% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.20 in August 2024 to 15.16, a 48% improvement. Oliver has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 25.0% of 284,439 all-time
15.16
signature single · Land of Lincoln 2025
63
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×315.1616.74
top 25.0%13,579 / 59,724
Pyraminx7.739.73
top 34.0%9,587 / 28,708
2×24.596.13
top 34.1%13,579 / 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

Land of Lincoln 2024: 29.20DuPage Fall 2024: 17.76Land of Lincoln 2025: 15.1615.1629.2010 Aug 202421 Jun 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 0.16 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.