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Owen Chester

2×2 · top 0.053% of 189,179 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016CHES01

Owen Chester has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.62, set at Virginia Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.053% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 19th in the United States. Until June 2015, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since April 2016, he has put 1,129 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.38 in April 2016 to 4.80, an 82% improvement. Owen has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.053% of 189,179 all-time
0.62
signature single · Virginia Championship 2026
1,129
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.622.58
top 0.053%19 / 41,674
3×34.808.26
top 0.085%55 / 60,666
Megaminx33.5935.83
top 0.52%38 / 8,026
Pyraminx1.863.22
top 0.92%267 / 29,168
6×61:25.021:34.08
top 1.1%46 / 4,262
5×547.7050.67
top 1.2%105 / 9,537
4×427.2530.26
top 1.5%256 / 19,354
3×3 one-handed10.9913.95
top 1.8%304 / 15,900
Clock4.036.07
top 2.4%209 / 9,172
7×72:23.592:38.52
top 2.8%78 / 3,236
Skewb2.633.39
top 3.4%531 / 19,164
Square-18.5210.81
top 3.8%287 / 6,846
3×3 blindfolded1:59.362:19.47
top 33.3%694 / 2,128

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

Virginia Open Spring 2016: 26.38TJHSST Fall 2016: 15.09Virginia Open Winter 2017: 13.57Rally In The Valley 2017: 11.32NovaCube 2018: 9.49Rally In The Valley 2018: 9.25TJHSST Fall 2018: 10.29VES Spring 2019: 7.62Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 7.68Rally in the Valley 2019: 7.67TJHSST Fall 2019: 8.60MLWGS Winter 2020: 8.20Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 7.25Silver Spring Summer 2022: 7.52Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 7.39CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.23North Carolina Championship 2025: 6.68Virginia Championship 2025: 7.48RVA Spring 2026: 6.12Virginia Championship 2026: 4.804.8026.382 Apr 201617 Oct 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-4 3×3 single — 41 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-30 Megaminx single — 76 people have one; it is 3.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.