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Ryan Harris

3×3 · top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2013 · 2013HARR01

Ryan Harris has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.99, set at Houston Back to School 2025, puts him in the top 4.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,701st in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since January 2013, he has put 268 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.16 in January 2013 to 8.99, a 66% improvement. Ryan has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.99
signature single · Houston Back to School 2025
268
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.999.26
top 4.8%2,701 / 59,724
4×438.3847.57
top 10.2%1,513 / 19,072
2×23.144.04
top 15.9%6,219 / 40,951
5×51:50.752:07.32
top 43.1%3,527 / 9,401
Clock45.84
early days — 1 solve8,601 / 8,927
Skewb34.89
top 98.3%18,738 / 18,907

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

Houston Winter 2013: 26.16Keep Austin Weird 2014: 13.41San Antonio Open 2014: 12.41Rice University 2014: 10.61Austin Cubing Limits 2015: 9.82SMA Winter 2015: 10.90Texas Two-Day Showdown 2015: 11.55Dallas Back to School 2015: 11.28Dallas Winter 2015: 11.12South East Texas Open 2016: 10.35Texas Out of School 2019: 9.06Houston Back to School 2025: 8.998.9926.165 Jan 20139 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 8.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.