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Preston Chambers

2×2 · top 5.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2025 · 2025CHAM05

Preston Chambers has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.14, set at Honolulu Hāʻulelau 2025, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,292nd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since May 2025, he has put 131 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.12 in May 2025 to 10.26, a 32% improvement. Preston has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 5.7% of 186,767 all-time
2.14
signature single · Honolulu Hāʻulelau 2025
131
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.146.45
top 5.7%2,292 / 40,951
3×310.2612.02
top 8.2%4,532 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed22.3527.48
top 27.0%3,484 / 15,683
4×41:05.281:18.04
top 42.1%6,905 / 19,072
3×3 blindfolded2:26.62
top 42.1%894 / 2,092

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

Kailua Kupulau 2025: 15.12Hawaiian Island Tour - Kāhala Open 2025: 13.48Hawaiian Island Tour - Honolulu 2025: 13.80Honolulu Hāʻulelau 2025: 13.96ʻAiea Liʻi ʻOkakopa 2025: 10.26Honolulu Hoʻoilo 2026: 10.93ʻEwa Beach Liʻi Malaki 2026: 10.3310.2615.123 May 202528 Mar 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 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.