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Seth Rowell

3×3 · top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014ROWE03

Seth Rowell has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.05, set at Washtenaw Winter 2025, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 847th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 77 competitions since November 2014, he has put 2,216 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.27 in November 2014 to 7.05, a 79% improvement. Seth has entered 77 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.05
signature single · Washtenaw Winter 2025
2,216
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.059.31
top 1.4%847 / 59,724
4×430.7936.15
top 3.3%533 / 19,072
2×22.113.93
top 5.5%2,199 / 40,951
5×51:07.721:13.73
top 10.0%790 / 9,401
6×62:02.292:23.40
top 11.9%423 / 4,196
3×3 one-handed17.6221.67
top 14.1%1,831 / 15,683
Skewb4.517.49
top 14.5%2,266 / 18,907
Megaminx1:08.231:16.20
top 14.6%988 / 7,841
Square-116.0523.63
top 18.8%1,268 / 6,743
Pyraminx6.018.34
top 20.1%5,377 / 28,708
Clock9.4712.74
top 22.4%1,724 / 8,927
7×73:38.143:49.49
top 22.8%645 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded1:45.982:36.92
top 28.6%594 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves44.67
top 33.6%738 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 12:22—
early days — 1 solve503 / 731

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

Michigan Mystery 2014: 34.27MCC Gamma 2015: 13.50Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2015: 14.45Michigan Cubing Club Beta 2016: 15.25Michigan 2016: 15.11Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2017: 14.06CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 12.79Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2018: 13.62Michigan Cubing Club Beta 2018: 11.97Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2018: 10.80Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2019: 10.94Blue Water Winter 2019: 13.04Michigan Cubing Club Beta 2019: 11.59Michigan Cubing Club Gamma 2019: 10.83Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2019: 10.77Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2020: 10.89Blue Water Bridge Open 2022: 9.81CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 8.59Washtenaw Spring B 2023: 11.16Michigan 2023: 10.19CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.55Rapidly Grand 2023: 9.96Pickering Favourites Fall 2023: 9.94Michigan Mini 8 2023: 8.97Michigan Mini 9 2023: 8.11Michigan Mini 10 2023: 8.39Michigan Mini 11 2023: 9.58Michigan Mini 12 2023: 9.64Michigan Mini 13 2024: 9.09Michigan Mini 15 2024: 9.16Washtenaw Newcomers 2024: 8.72Michigan Mini 17 2024: 9.28Michigan Mega Madness 2024: 8.37Michigan Mini 18 2024: 8.71Washtenaw Qualifiers 2024: 10.05Michigan Championship 2024: 9.12Michigan Mini 20 2024: 9.22Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.01Michigan Mini 21 2024: 8.67Grand Rapids Cubes 2024: 8.66Michigan Mini 22 2024: 9.15Michigan Mini 23 2024: 8.92CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 8.99Michigan Mini 24 2024: 8.80Michigan Mini 25 2024: 8.90Michigan Mini 26B 2024: 8.73Imagination Station A 2025: 9.11Washtenaw Winter 2025: 7.05Michigan Mini 28 2025: 9.05Michigan Mini 29 2025: 8.58Bowling Green 2025: 9.10Michigan Mini 30 2025: 8.58Michigan Mini 31 2025: 9.36Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.41Michigan Championship 2025: 9.53Michigan Mini 36 2025: 9.28Michigan Mini 37 2025: 9.19Bowling Green Fall 2025: 9.35Michigan Mini 38 2025: 9.09Michigan Medium 2025: 7.98Imagination Station A 2026: 9.51Michigan Mini 39 2026: 8.79Bowling Green Spring 2026: 9.89Michigan Mini 40 2026: 9.10Michigan Mini 41 2026: 8.11Michigan Mini 43 2026: 8.09Michigan Mini 44 2026: 9.377.0534.2722 Nov 201427 Aug 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.05 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.