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Rowe Hessler

3×3 Multi-Blind · top 0.047% of 4,268 all-time · competing since March 2007 · 2007HESS01

Rowe Hessler has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3 Multi-Blind: a personal-best single of 63 of 66 cubes · 59:50, set at New York Multimate PBQ 2025, puts him in the top 0.047% of the 4,268 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in the United States. Across 194 competitions since March 2007, he has put 6,278 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.40 in March 2007 to 6.13, a 65% improvement. Rowe has entered 194 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Multi-Blind
best event — top 0.047% of 4,268 all-time
63 of 66 cubes · 59:50
signature single · New York Multimate PBQ 2025
6,278
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Multi-Blind63 of 66 cubes · 59:50—
top 0.047%2 / 731
3×3 blindfolded15.1019.47
top 0.19%6 / 2,092
2×20.962.25
top 0.48%199 / 40,951
3×36.137.47
top 0.57%379 / 59,724
Square-15.878.56
top 0.72%63 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves26.33
top 1.5%39 / 2,040
4×427.5131.60
top 1.6%267 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed11.4113.81
top 2.3%368 / 15,683
4×4 blindfolded1:59.252:24.42
top 2.5%9 / 440
5×5 blindfolded4:22.635:57.86
top 2.7%5 / 218
Megaminx45.9552.73
top 3.4%250 / 7,841
5×51:03.681:11.96
top 7.6%597 / 9,401
Pyraminx4.218.94
top 8.7%2,243 / 28,708
Skewb3.945.04
top 10.5%1,609 / 18,907
6×62:14.212:19.43
top 17.5%621 / 4,196
7×74:02.904:10.90
top 31.8%888 / 3,184
Clock11.7514.59
top 33.8%2,670 / 8,927

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

Cornell Spring competition 2007: 17.40Rutgers Spring competition 2007: 17.23Captain's Cove competition 2007: 18.56US Open 2007: 16.71World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 18.72Virginia Open 2007: 13.34Kearny Kardinal competition 2008: 14.30Toronto Open Winter 2008: 11.83Cornell Spring competition 2008: 13.18Armonk Spring 2008: 11.05Da Vinci Science Center competition 2008: 12.86US Nationals and Open 2008: 9.13Niagara Open Summer 2008: 10.25Newark Open 2008: 8.91Westchester Fall 2008: 10.34Virginia Open 2008: 10.96Newark Winter 2009: 11.13Fort Lee Winter 2009: 11.16Captain's Cove competition 2009: 12.03Cumberland Valley Open 2009: 10.50Safe Haven competition 2009: 10.52Connecticut Summer Competition 2009: 10.28US Nationals 2009: 10.43World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 9.59MIT Fall 2009: 9.97Brown Cubing Day 2009: 9.16Washington DC Open 2010: 8.72MIT Spring 2010: 10.08Safe Haven competition 2010: 9.30United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 9.21Long Island 2010: 9.19Harvard Fall 2010: 9.16MIT Fall 2010: 6.94Toronto Open Fall 2010: 7.06Liberty Science Center Open 2010: 8.00St. Joseph's College Winter 2011: 9.53Brown Cubing Day 2011: 9.08MIT Spring 2011: 8.05Park Ridge Open 2011: 8.38United States National Championships 2011: 8.47Yale Fall 2011: 7.96World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 7.68Harvard Fall 2011: 8.38Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 8.55Bridgewater Open 2011: 7.36MIT Fall 2011: 8.58River Hill Winter 2012: 7.02MIT Spring 2012: 7.90Newark Head to Head 2012: 7.47St. Joseph's College Winter 2012: 7.78Harvard Spring 2012: 7.50Yale Spring 2012: 8.28Jersey Shore Open 2012: 8.03United States National Championships 2012: 7.94St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 8.16Yale Fall 2012: 7.65Harvard Fall 2012: 8.21European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 7.15MIT Fall 2012: 7.44Levittown Open 2012: 7.44Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 7.63Monmouth County Open 2013: 8.09Harvard Spring 2013: 8.83River Hill Winter 2013: 8.38MIT Spring 2013: 8.22Montréal Open 2013: 8.34Danish Special 2013: 7.941 AVG competition 2013: 8.11Newark Head to Head 2013: 9.37World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 8.33CCFC Fall 2013: 7.75Harvard Fall 2013: 7.77Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2013: 7.77Yale Fall 2013: 8.30Slow 'n Steady Fall 2013: 7.00Princeton Winter 2014: 7.06US Nationals 2014: 8.36Norwich Summer 2015: 8.05Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 6.52Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2015: 7.05Cubing at SkillCon 2015: 7.40Virginia Open Fall 2015: 7.04Manhasset Fall 2015: 6.52Liberty Science 2015: 7.46Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 7.53Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 6.67Princeton Winter 2016: 8.21Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 6.50Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2016: 7.58Virginia Open Spring 2016: 7.63Manhasset Spring 2016: 7.52Big Apple Spring 2016: 7.55Cube For A Cure Spring 2016: 7.75Cube4Cam 2016: 7.07Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 7.14US Nationals 2016: 7.83Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 7.06Princeton Fall 2016: 7.33Mega Minnesota Winter 2016: 7.24Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 7.19Lexington Summer 2017: 6.45CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 6.42Severna Park Summer 2017: 7.30Northwest Championships 2017: 7.15Maryland 2017: 6.94Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 7.08Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 6.80CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2018: 7.73Rutgers Spring 2018: 6.72CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 6.61Maryland 2018: 7.24Brooklyn 2018: 7.44CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 6.82CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 9.16Massachusetts Championship 2019: 7.07CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 6.92Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 6.96CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 7.20Mum's the Word 2023: 6.56Troy Story 2023: 6.13Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 7.14Empire State Winter Warmup 2023: 6.96Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 7.22Ohio State Summer Solving 2023: 6.40CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 7.38Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.28Gouverneur Quick & Quiet 2024: 7.39Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.82Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.736.1318.7231 Mar 20072 Jul 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-15 3×3 blindfolded single — 19 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.