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Parker Ballew

2×2 · top 45.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2025 · 2025BALL09

Parker Ballew has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 5.47, set at Utah Puzzling for Awareness V Favorites 2026, puts him in the top 45.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18,153rd in the United States. Across 4 competitions since August 2025, he has put 48 official solves on the record across four events. His 3×3 best has come down from 48.53 in August 2025 to 30.99, a 36% improvement. Parker has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 45.0% of 186,767 all-time
5.47
signature single · Utah Puzzling for Awareness V Favorites 2026
48
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×25.477.06
top 45.0%18,153 / 40,951
Pyraminx9.2913.74
top 47.3%13,642 / 28,708
3×330.9934.50
top 64.2%38,479 / 59,724
Skewb16.4430.04
top 82.6%15,849 / 18,907

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

Back to School Utah 2025: 48.53Utah Snowball Bash 2025: 34.15Utah Ice Cubing 2026: 30.99Utah Puzzling for Awareness V Favorites 2026: 35.1130.9948.539 Aug 202511 Apr 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-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 1.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.