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Payton Corey

Pyraminx · top 3.3% of 129,321 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023CORE02

Payton Corey has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.91, set at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 876th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since April 2023, he has put 630 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.95 in April 2023 to 10.18, a 69% improvement. Payton has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.3% of 129,321 all-time
2.91
signature single · CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026
630
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx2.913.66
top 3.3%876 / 28,708
Skewb3.226.15
top 6.1%949 / 18,907
Clock5.767.36
top 6.5%504 / 8,927
2×22.343.99
top 7.4%2,922 / 40,951
3×310.1812.64
top 8.0%4,401 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed16.3721.94
top 11.1%1,453 / 15,683
4×442.9653.35
top 15.7%2,375 / 19,072
5×51:26.611:33.61
top 24.6%1,916 / 9,401
Megaminx1:28.901:36.08
top 27.5%1,899 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves—
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
Square-122.3136.30
top 33.1%2,143 / 6,743
7×74:27.944:34.55
top 40.5%1,146 / 3,184
6×63:06.623:52.15
top 44.1%1,632 / 4,196

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

Up in the North 2023: 32.95Ho'oholo in Honolulu 2023: 23.20The Last Frontier Fall 2023: 18.52Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2024: 14.46The Last Frontier Summer 2024: 13.04Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 15.21Hawaiʻi Big Island Winter 2025: 12.94Anchorage Spring 2025: 12.40Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.78Lakewood Fall 2025: 11.51Juneau Cubing Spring 2026: 11.45The Last Frontier Spring 2026: 10.39CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 10.18SPAMTown IV MN 2026: 11.3610.1832.951 Apr 202325 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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.22 away.

Targets move as he improves.