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Phillip Kendall

3×3 · top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025KEND02

Phillip Kendall has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.02, set at Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,751st in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since February 2025, he has put 585 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.13 in February 2025 to 9.02, a 57% improvement. Phillip has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.02
signature single · Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026
585
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.0211.62
top 4.9%2,751 / 59,724
2×22.193.34
top 6.1%2,437 / 40,951
Skewb3.236.99
top 6.2%955 / 18,907
Square-113.5220.30
top 13.0%895 / 6,743
Pyraminx5.386.44
top 15.6%4,105 / 28,708
4×444.5549.97
top 17.7%2,689 / 19,072
Clock8.609.62
top 18.0%1,381 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed19.3625.22
top 18.8%2,422 / 15,683
Megaminx1:40.141:55.32
top 34.7%2,466 / 7,841
5×51:52.322:04.36
top 44.2%3,630 / 9,401
6×65:21.06—
early days — 1 solve3,471 / 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

Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 21.13Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 13.01Gobbler Cube Day Spring at VT 2025: 14.43TJHSST Spring 2025: 14.63Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 15.14Virginia Championship 2025: 14.53ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 13.59NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 10.97River Hill Fall 2025: 11.57Gobbler Cube Day Winter at VT 2026: 10.80TJHSST Winter 2026: 9.93Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 10.20Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 9.02Virginia Beach Spring 2026: 10.81RVA Spring 2026: 10.26Colonial Cube Clash VA 2026: 11.37Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 10.81Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 10.619.0221.131 Feb 202514 Aug 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.

  • Warren Morris — met in 105 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
  • Andrew Lee — met in 94 rounds, finished ahead 53 times
  • Fiona Bao — met in 88 rounds, finished ahead once

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.02 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.