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Silas Starling

3×3 · top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017STAR04

Silas Starling has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.33, set at Rocky Top 2023, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,051st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 58 competitions since March 2017, he has put 2,831 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.45 in March 2017 to 7.33, a 53% improvement. Silas has entered 58 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.7% of 284,439 all-time
7.33
signature single · Rocky Top 2023
2,831
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.339.11
top 1.7%1,051 / 59,724
Clock3.865.41
top 2.1%178 / 8,927
2×21.803.55
top 3.6%1,413 / 40,951
Megaminx47.7759.86
top 4.1%291 / 7,841
Pyraminx3.467.16
top 5.3%1,383 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed14.1517.66
top 6.4%883 / 15,683
4×435.9038.13
top 7.6%1,154 / 19,072
5×51:11.921:19.07
top 13.0%1,004 / 9,401
Skewb4.537.85
top 14.7%2,294 / 18,907
Square-115.6320.11
top 17.9%1,212 / 6,743
6×62:28.542:41.92
top 24.9%890 / 4,196
7×73:49.824:15.11
top 27.1%761 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:02.20—
top 34.2%705 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves44.00
top 55.5%1,178 / 2,040

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

Unionville Open Spring 2017: 15.45Hendersonville Spring 2017: 13.14Crossroads Cubing Spring 2017: 12.84Hendersonville Fall 2017: 12.18Gobbler Cube Day 2017: 11.27South Carolina 2017: 10.82Classic City Spooks 2017: 10.94Classic City 4 Charity 2017: 12.22Wolfpack Winter 2018: 10.83Hendersonville Winter 2018: 10.00Fruit Salad 2018: 10.14CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2018: 10.13Carolina Cubers United 2018: 10.96Crossroads Cubing 2018: 10.15CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 11.09Carolina Season Starter 2018: 9.63Tar Heel Tango 2018: 9.08Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2018: 8.21Rocky Top 2018: 10.13Hendersonville Winter 2019: 9.54Wolfpack Winter 2019: 9.64CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2019: 8.87Cape Fear Cubing 2019: 10.66Greensboro Summer 2019: 11.09CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.27Scuppernong Spectacular 2019: 10.36Rocky The Ram Cubes 2019: 10.25Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2019: 10.77Rocky Top 2019: 10.18Charlotte Winter 2020: 10.59Rocky Top 2021: 8.80CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 8.94Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2022: 8.07Rocky Top 2022: 7.97Niner Nation Open 2023: 8.59Wolfpack Winter 2023: 8.99CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.11Staunton Speedsolving 2023: 8.32North Carolina Championship 2023: 7.90Rocky Top 2023: 7.33Upstate Palmetto Puzzles 2024: 8.64Concord Summer 2024: 8.60CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 7.74Bull City Summer NC 2024: 9.06Charlotte Winter 2025: 8.75Queen City NC 2025: 9.10Concord Summer 2025: 9.31NxN Nonsense NC 2026: 8.89Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026: 9.85Apex Algs Again 2026: 8.46Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.317.3315.4518 Mar 20172 Jul 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 1.33 away.
  • A sub-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.