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Owen Stotts
3×3 · top 2.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2023 · 2023STOT01
Owen Stotts has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.71, set at Best in West Lafayette 2025, puts him in the top 2.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,345th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since February 2023, he has put 489 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.36 in February 2023 to 7.71, a 26% improvement. Owen has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.71 | 8.17 | top 2.3% | 1,345 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.35 | 3.55 | top 7.5% | 2,957 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 15.77 | 17.50 | top 9.7% | 1,289 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 41.32 | 45.77 | top 13.7% | 2,042 / 19,072 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.48 | 10.56 | top 23.7% | 6,425 / 28,708 | |
| 5×5 | 1:31.73 | 1:46.05 | top 28.7% | 2,253 / 9,401 | |
| Megaminx | 2:42.56 | — | early days — 2 solves | 5,147 / 7,841 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Oct 2024Three personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024.
- 2 Sep 2023First sub-10 3×3: 8.88 at Get to Work Chicagoland 2023.
- 2 Sep 2023Four personal bests in one day at Get to Work Chicagoland 2023.
- 25 Feb 2023First competition: Indiana Finally Returns 2023. A 11.20 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026
- Best in West Lafayette 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025
- Fun in Muncie 2025 · 31 May 2025
- CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024 · 4 Oct 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Northern Kentucky 2024 · 15 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Minxville Indiana 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubicle Day Oxford 2024 · 28 Apr 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Circle City Cubing 2024 · 13 Apr 2024
- Bloomington Open 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Gem City First in Flight 2024 · 3 Feb 2024
- UIUC Fall 2023 · 9 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Swoop in Again Oxford 2023 · 19 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing by the Kings 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Get to Work Chicagoland 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Little Giant Open 2023 · 24 Jun 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- UIUC Spring 2023 · 1 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Indiana Finally Returns 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Luke Garrett — met in 85 rounds, never finished ahead
- Evan Brown — met in 54 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Harsha Paladugu — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.71 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
Targets move as he improves.