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Ryan Apple

3×3 · top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016APPL01

Ryan Apple has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.40, set at Penn Cube Day Spring 2026, puts him in the top 5.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,243rd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since May 2016, he has put 684 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.85 in May 2016 to 9.40, a 53% improvement. Ryan has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.40
signature single · Penn Cube Day Spring 2026
684
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.4011.47
top 5.8%3,243 / 59,724
2×22.593.39
top 9.8%3,865 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.048.26
top 13.4%3,500 / 28,708
4×444.7251.19
top 18.0%2,735 / 19,072
Megaminx1:18.031:29.77
top 20.5%1,413 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed22.7827.97
top 28.2%3,638 / 15,683
5×51:33.941:44.20
top 30.6%2,425 / 9,401
Skewb7.3611.12
top 36.4%6,207 / 18,907
3×3 blindfolded2:53.00—
top 50.5%1,075 / 2,092
7×75:26.497:09.91
top 58.7%1,744 / 3,184
6×63:46.064:11.95
top 60.8%2,339 / 4,196
Square-146.10—
top 72.3%4,754 / 6,743
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 32:52—
early days — 2 solves573 / 731
4×4 blindfolded16:42.00—
early days — 1 solve341 / 440
Clock36.7348.28
top 91.1%8,147 / 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

Big Apple Spring 2016: 19.85TJHSST Fall 2016: 25.04Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 12.84Mum's the Word 2023: 11.64Empire State Winter Warmup 2023: 10.04Pretzel Mania 2023: 11.28Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 10.07North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023: 11.82Cubing in the Lion's Den 2023: 10.69Warwick Cube Day 2023: 10.93Return to Quabbin 2023: 11.17Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 11.41Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 10.24New York New Year 2024: 10.87Troy Story 2024: 10.54Berwick Spring 2024: 9.99Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 10.71Ephrata Fall 2025: 10.78Elmira Winter 2026: 9.56Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 9.40Happy Valley Spring PA 2026: 9.499.4025.0421 May 201619 Apr 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.40 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.