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Patrick Chen

3×3 · top 7.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2013 · 2013CHEN10

Patrick Chen has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.03, set at Cubes on the Bayside 2023, puts him in the top 7.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,150th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since April 2013, he has put 1,138 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.21 in April 2013 to 10.03, a 55% improvement. Patrick has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.03
signature single · Cubes on the Bayside 2023
1,138
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.0312.59
top 7.5%4,150 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.136.48
top 8.3%2,130 / 28,708
2×23.354.14
top 18.4%7,199 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed21.1524.09
top 23.6%3,037 / 15,683
4×449.4355.91
top 24.0%3,665 / 19,072
Skewb5.9310.83
top 25.2%4,089 / 18,907
5×51:34.321:45.92
top 30.9%2,445 / 9,401
Megaminx1:37.381:46.76
top 33.0%2,335 / 7,841
Clock11.7412.39
top 33.7%2,663 / 8,927
7×74:47.425:16.05
top 47.0%1,365 / 3,184
6×63:13.263:34.24
top 47.3%1,771 / 4,196
Square-132.87—
top 54.8%3,617 / 6,743

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

Cornell Open Spring 2013: 22.21Cornell Open Spring 2014: 23.24CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 20.73Princeton Fall 2018: 19.17New York City Fall 2018: 17.34Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 15.85Princeton Winter 2019: 16.28Long Island Winter 2019: 16.33SBU Spring 2019: 16.56Ridge Cubing 2019: 14.58Arcadia Summer 2019: 17.30CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 13.28Brooklyn Fall 2019: 11.60SBU Fall 2019: 14.57Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 13.92Princeton Winter 2020: 14.66Babylon Winter 2020: 13.91Babylon Fall 2021: 12.55Princeton Spring 2022: 12.39East Brunswick Open 2022: 13.42Westport Summer 2022: 13.07Babylon Summer 2022: 11.85New York Yopen 2022: 12.33PBs in Palisades 2023: 11.27GCU Spring 2023: 11.72Newark's On Track 2023: 12.36Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 10.03GCU Winter 2024: 12.13Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 11.90NYU Winter 2024: 11.18Spring into Summit 2024: 12.07Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 13.06Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 12.22Pop Off Princeton 2025: 11.56Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 10.27American Dream NJ 2025: 13.18Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 11.46Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 12.45Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 13.27Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 12.18No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026: 11.07Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 14.5610.0323.246 Apr 20132 Jul 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.