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Preston Barden

3×3 · top 8.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2024 · 2024BARD01

Preston Barden has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.18, set at DFW Cubing Fall 2024, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,401st in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 2 competitions since August 2024, he has put 79 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.54 in August 2024 to 10.18, a 12% improvement. Preston has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 8.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.18
signature single · DFW Cubing Fall 2024
79
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.1813.15
top 8.0%4,401 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.858.17
top 12.3%3,194 / 28,708
2×23.936.01
top 25.6%10,051 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed25.1828.71
top 34.7%4,577 / 15,683
4×41:01.171:11.36
top 37.7%6,101 / 19,072
Square-132.1937.66
top 53.6%3,529 / 6,743
5×52:34.24
early days — 2 solves5,928 / 9,401

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

DFW Back to School 2024: 11.54DFW Cubing Fall 2024: 10.1810.1811.5425 Aug 202426 Oct 2024

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.

  • Carter Mays — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
  • James Wang — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
  • Ishan Parikh — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead 5 times

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.18 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.