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Preston Duke

3×3 · top 0.52% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018DUKE01

Preston Duke has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.06, set at Utah Ice Cubing 2024, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 352nd in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since May 2018, he has put 686 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.96 in May 2018 to 6.06, an 82% improvement. Preston has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.52% of 284,439 all-time
6.06
signature single · Utah Ice Cubing 2024
686
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.069.28
top 0.52%352 / 59,724
2×21.932.78
top 4.3%1,705 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.315.08
top 4.7%1,239 / 28,708
Square-19.5214.55
top 5.3%383 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed13.6019.28
top 5.4%763 / 15,683
4×434.7342.25
top 6.5%998 / 19,072
Skewb3.475.54
top 7.5%1,171 / 18,907
5×51:10.871:19.84
top 12.2%941 / 9,401
Megaminx1:12.251:24.84
top 17.0%1,162 / 7,841
Clock8.919.65
top 19.6%1,495 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves36.67
top 20.4%446 / 2,040
6×62:24.032:28.90
top 22.6%805 / 4,196
7×73:45.593:52.03
top 25.5%721 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:02.632:29.30
top 34.3%707 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 12:39—
early days — 2 solves504 / 731
4×4 blindfolded20:52.0022:05.00
top 90.9%392 / 440

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

Utah Big Blind-off 2018: 33.96Utah Snowball Bash 2018: 13.30Utah Valley Open 2019: 12.78Utah's April Surprise 2019: 10.76Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2019: 9.43Big and Skewb Utah 2019: 7.57Perfect Vision Provo 2020: 8.66CubingUSA Western Championship 2021: 8.57Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022: 9.04Utah Snowball Bash 2022: 7.30Utah Snowball Bash 2023: 8.56Utah Ice Cubing 2024: 6.06Southern Utah Summer 2024: 7.77Utah Cubing with Culture 2024: 7.90Utah Valley Open 2024: 7.526.0633.9612 May 201826 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.

  • Isaac Myers — met in 125 rounds, finished ahead 79 times
  • Damian Wilding — met in 120 rounds, finished ahead 95 times
  • Cade Beck — met in 120 rounds, finished ahead 92 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.