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Seth Hammell

Pyraminx · top 3.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022HAMM16

Seth Hammell has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.02, set at Colorado Cubing Weekend 2025, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 981st in the United States. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since October 2022, he has put 768 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.29 in October 2022 to 14.49, a 25% improvement. Seth has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.7% of 129,321 all-time
3.02
signature single · Colorado Cubing Weekend 2025
768
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx3.0210.10
top 3.7%981 / 28,708
2×22.345.41
top 7.4%2,922 / 40,951
Square-117.3337.02
top 21.7%1,443 / 6,743
3×314.4917.36
top 22.7%12,268 / 59,724
Clock10.6712.06
top 28.4%2,200 / 8,927
Skewb7.6313.46
top 38.5%6,608 / 18,907
5×51:54.012:19.35
top 45.3%3,742 / 9,401
4×41:12.421:17.95
top 49.2%8,236 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed36.3546.80
top 59.7%8,372 / 15,683
7×75:53.906:23.07
top 66.3%2,009 / 3,184
Megaminx2:47.74—
top 69.3%5,338 / 7,841
6×64:18.004:23.19
top 71.1%2,805 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves48 moves—
early days — 2 solves1,529 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded6:35.03—
early days — 1 solve1,863 / 2,092

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

Summit Big Cube Showdown 2022: 19.29Bundle Up Broomfield 2023: 20.24Mile High Megacomp 2023: 15.83Colorado Jungle Jumble 2023: 14.49CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 18.72Barely Awake Boulder 2024: 18.62Oredigger Open 2024: 16.36Spring Madness Colorado 2024: 18.00Cherry on Top Colorado PM 2024: 20.61Pretzel Mania Denver 2024: 18.27Colorado Mountain Tour - Evergreen 2024: 15.86Colorado Mountain Tour - Frisco 2024: 17.50Don't Blow Away Casper 2024: 16.61Cubing with an Altitude Colorado 2024: 17.56Centennial State Cube Off 2024: 17.49Boulder Holiday Bash 2025: 19.39DeNxNver 2025: 16.55Oredigger Open CO 2025: 18.12Happy Crew CO 2025: 15.90Longmont Open 2025: 15.24Colorado Springs Spring 2025: 17.28Grand Junction Dysfunction 2025: 16.09Colorado Cubing Weekend 2025: 17.17Oredigger Fall CO 2025: 17.913x3s in 303 Colorado 2025: 18.7714.4920.6115 Oct 20226 Dec 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 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.