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Ryan Gilson

3×3 · top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2016 · 2016GILS01

Ryan Gilson has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.25, set at Virginia Championship 2023, puts him in the top 5.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,054th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since March 2016, he has put 577 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.60 in March 2016 to 9.25, a 78% improvement. Ryan has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.25
signature single · Virginia Championship 2023
577
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.2511.80
top 5.5%3,054 / 59,724
Clock6.988.98
top 10.8%836 / 8,927
5×51:08.971:15.98
top 10.9%848 / 9,401
4×439.7143.39
top 11.8%1,742 / 19,072
Pyraminx4.799.07
top 11.9%3,100 / 28,708
2×23.264.23
top 17.3%6,774 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed20.0122.17
top 20.5%2,628 / 15,683
Megaminx1:22.771:35.56
top 23.6%1,629 / 7,841
7×73:49.874:13.29
top 27.2%763 / 3,184
6×63:00.063:08.79
top 41.1%1,505 / 4,196
Skewb8.4811.22
top 44.9%7,902 / 18,907
Square-150.14—
early days — 3 solves5,044 / 6,743

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

Athens Spring 2016: 42.60Unionville Open Spring 2017: 31.74Hendersonville Spring 2017: 31.65Crossroads Cubing Spring 2017: 33.11Hendersonville Winter 2018: 20.38Fruit Salad 2018: 21.64Rocky Top 2018: 19.54Scuppernong Spectacular 2019: 13.75Rocky The Ram Cubes 2019: 13.53Rocky Top 2019: 14.04Concord Summer 2023: 12.07North Carolina Championship 2023: 11.10Virginia Championship 2023: 9.25CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 10.33Charlotte Winter 2025: 9.91Queen City NC 2025: 10.20North Carolina Championship 2025: 11.25Concord Summer 2025: 10.40NxN Nonsense NC 2026: 10.599.2542.6019 Mar 201622 Feb 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 1.25 away.
  • A sub-6 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.