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Peter Preston

Skewb · top 2.5% of 73,281 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017PRES02

Peter Preston has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.40, set at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 378th in the United States. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 85 competitions since May 2017, he has put 2,962 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.26 in May 2017 to 8.40, a 65% improvement. Peter has entered 85 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 2.5% of 73,281 all-time
2.40
signature single · Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024
2,962
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Skewb2.403.83
top 2.5%378 / 18,907
Square-17.7011.11
top 2.6%192 / 6,743
3×38.4010.68
top 3.5%2,001 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.095.49
top 3.9%1,052 / 28,708
2×22.283.79
top 6.9%2,720 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed14.6419.09
top 7.4%990 / 15,683
4×440.4144.57
top 12.6%1,853 / 19,072
Clock7.548.57
top 13.1%998 / 8,927
5×51:18.771:30.74
top 18.1%1,398 / 9,401
Megaminx1:14.971:28.87
top 18.7%1,268 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves37.00
top 20.4%446 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded1:25.632:29.54
top 21.5%440 / 2,092
6×62:38.882:54.54
top 30.1%1,062 / 4,196
7×74:01.884:10.69
top 31.4%877 / 3,184
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 49:50—
top 32.8%244 / 731
4×4 blindfolded9:45.5713:15.00
top 56.3%238 / 440
5×5 blindfolded25:01.00—
early days — 1 solve168 / 218

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

Rose City 2017: 24.26SnoCo Cubing Summer 2017: 18.87Cubing with the Duck 2017: 20.87Northwest Championships 2017: 18.33Spokane Valley Summer 2017: 17.57Puget Sound Fall 2017: 20.27SnoCo Cubing Fall 2017: 17.97Atomic Cubing Fall 2017: 15.87Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017: 15.47Vancouver Open Winter 2018: 14.93Skyline Open 2018: 14.56Puget Sound Valentine 2018: 14.54Eugene Spring 2018: 15.15Puget Sound Spring 2018: 15.97Yakima Valley Cubing 2018: 14.21Gaston Spring 2018: 15.59St. John's Spring Open 2018: 14.62SnoCo Summer 2018: 12.99CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.90CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 11.15Vancouver Select 2018: 12.23Atomic Cubing Fall 2018: 13.08SnoCo Fall 2018: 11.20Puget Sound NxNxN 2018: 14.02Welcome to 2019: 12.26UBC Open 2019: 13.69The Last Frontier Open 2019: 11.06SnoCo Feet Fest 2019: 11.47Downtown Vancouver Summer 2019: 11.97CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 13.60Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019: 12.42Puget Sound Fall 2019: 11.56Chilliwack Cubes Fall 2019: 11.65SnoCo Fall 2019: 14.52Washington Championship 2020: 11.44SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021: 11.14Let's Try Again Spokane 2022: 9.02PLU NxN 2022: 11.07Bothell Spring 2022: 10.25Odd Seattle Summer 2022: 10.63Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 10.64SnoCo Favorites 2022: 9.61Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022: 9.24SnoCo NxN 2022: 10.41New Kent On The Block 2022: 10.32SnoCo Veteran's Weekend A 2022: 9.11Big Cubes in Bothell 2022: 10.68Cubing on the Octagon 2022: 9.97Lynnwood Winter 2023: 10.50Utah Ice Cubing 2023: 11.52Cubing Under the Northern Lights 2023: 10.64Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 10.69Bothell Spring Open 2023: 9.81Washington Championship 2023: 10.62Welcome to Olympia 2023: 11.27Mill Creek 2023: 10.70Bothell Summer 2023: 9.68Maltby Mega Special 2023: 11.73CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.85SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 8.59Back to School Utah 2023: 8.40SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 10.44Utah Ice Cubing 2024: 10.82CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 9.96Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.58Bellingham Fall 2024: 9.92Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024: 9.81Warm Up Seattle 2025: 8.83Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.848.4024.2620 May 20173 Jul 2025

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 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 1.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.