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Owen Brooks

3×3 · top 0.11% of 288,433 all-time · competing since December 2016 · 2016BROO08

Owen Brooks has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 4.95, set at Florida Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.11% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 73rd in the United States. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since December 2016, he has put 1,952 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.23 in December 2016 to 4.95, an 80% improvement. Owen has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.11% of 288,433 all-time
4.95
signature single · Florida Championship 2026
1,952
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×34.956.71
top 0.11%73 / 60,666
4×423.9027.54
top 0.49%88 / 19,354
3×3 one-handed8.9912.61
top 0.51%80 / 15,900
Pyraminx1.672.31
top 0.63%191 / 29,168
5×545.9149.71
top 0.85%73 / 9,537
2×21.282.03
top 1.3%544 / 41,674
Skewb2.014.68
top 1.4%214 / 19,164
6×61:32.831:37.97
top 2.4%97 / 4,262
Square-17.6611.23
top 2.6%191 / 6,846
3×3 blindfolded24.5529.42
top 2.8%55 / 2,128
Megaminx44.4450.30
top 2.9%204 / 8,026
7×72:28.492:42.30
top 3.5%99 / 3,236
Clock5.466.42
top 5.6%453 / 9,172
3×3 Multi-Blind15 of 21 cubes · 1:00:00—
early days — 2 solves154 / 740
4×4 blindfolded5:04.28—
early days — 3 solves87 / 442
5×5 blindfolded14:05.00—
early days — 1 solve75 / 220

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

South Berwick Open 2016: 24.23Princeton Fall 2017: 19.19Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 14.11Rutgers Spring 2018: 13.40CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 12.94Kew Forest Open 2018: 11.83Princeton Winter 2019: 13.10SBU Spring 2019: 10.12Brooklyn 2019: 11.09CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.93Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 8.35Brooklyn Fall 2019: 9.07SBU Fall 2019: 8.57Princeton Winter 2020: 8.38Constitution State Winter 2020: 7.64Babylon Winter 2020: 7.49Florida Returns 2021: 7.99Florida Fall 2021: 7.34Florida Spring A 2022: 7.33Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 7.67Pegasus 2023: 7.00CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.75Cubing Knights IV 2023: 7.00Cubing Knights V 2023: 6.74Miami Spring 2024: 6.72Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024: 6.18Miami Skewbed 2024: 5.92St. Augustine 2024: 6.27CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 6.07Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 5.08Zephyr Cube Bash 2025: 6.14FSUbers 10.0 2025: 5.96Thrice as Nice Miami 2025: 5.80FSUbers 11.0 2026: 6.03Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 5.38Florida Championship 2026: 4.954.9524.2310 Dec 20165 Sep 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.

  • Noah Swor — met in 236 rounds, finished ahead 63 times
  • Sean Hartman — met in 226 rounds, finished ahead 115 times
  • Carter Bitz — met in 205 rounds, finished ahead 128 times

Next targets

  • A sub-4 3×3 single — 41 people have one; it is 0.95 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 46 people have one; it is 3.90 away.

Targets move as he improves.