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Reece Romans

Clock · top 2.1% of 32,048 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023ROMA07

Reece Romans has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.86, set at Eugene Cubing Spring 2025, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 178th in the United States. Until June 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since April 2023, he has put 443 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 9 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.35 in April 2023 to 8.51, a 64% improvement. Reece has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 2.1% of 32,048 all-time
3.86
signature single · Eugene Cubing Spring 2025
443
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock3.865.29
top 2.1%178 / 8,927
Skewb2.667.96
top 3.5%540 / 18,907
3×38.5114.51
top 3.8%2,117 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.104.75
top 4.0%1,060 / 28,708
2×22.294.85
top 7.0%2,756 / 40,951
4×450.4958.66
top 25.3%3,883 / 19,072
5×51:32.722:02.85
top 29.6%2,335 / 9,401
Square-121.2926.75
top 30.9%1,999 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed24.3126.74
top 32.3%4,230 / 15,683
Megaminx2:31.02—
top 61.6%4,650 / 7,841

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

Welcome to Olympia 2023: 23.35Eugene Cubing 2023: 22.24Stumptown Speedcubing Summer 2023: 19.24Eugene Ice Cubing 2024: 18.11Couve Cubing Spring 2024: 16.01Hillsboro Favorites 2024: 18.16Tacoma Summer 2024: 13.26Oregon Championship 2024: 15.85McMinnville Cubing Fall 2024: 14.93Eugene Harvest Cubing 2024: 14.28Olympia Fall 2024: 12.75Hillsboro Winter 2025: 11.72Tacoma Winter 2025: 10.07Eugene Cubing Spring 2025: 12.99Hillsboro Newcomers 2025: 8.51Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025: 13.31Corvallis 2025: 10.228.5123.3529 Apr 20234 May 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-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.86 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.