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Skye Bateman

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022BATE01

Skye Bateman has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.16, set at Rocky Mountain Championship 2026, puts her in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 914th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since January 2022, she has put 1,370 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.68 in January 2022 to 7.16, a 48% improvement. Skye has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.16
signature single · Rocky Mountain Championship 2026
1,370
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.169.34
top 1.5%914 / 59,724
2×21.412.59
top 1.8%705 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.984.99
top 3.6%946 / 28,708
Skewb3.635.69
top 8.5%1,312 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed17.5218.84
top 13.9%1,803 / 15,683
4×442.5355.05
top 15.1%2,279 / 19,072
Square-115.3322.03
top 17.2%1,165 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves38.67
top 26.7%586 / 2,040
5×51:32.081:41.60
top 29.0%2,286 / 9,401
Clock10.8613.00
top 29.4%2,289 / 8,927
Megaminx1:34.151:42.72
top 30.8%2,167 / 7,841
6×63:15.923:30.04
top 48.4%1,816 / 4,196
7×74:59.785:15.18
top 50.5%1,472 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded3:02.58
top 53.2%1,127 / 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

Utah Ice Cubing 2022: 13.68Back to School Utah 2022: 15.24Utah Championship 2022: 11.79Utah Snowball Bash 2022: 12.38Utah Ice Cubing 2023: 11.24Utah Megacomp 2023: 10.34Utah Puzzling For Awareness XL 2023: 9.91Salt Lake Utah Summer 2023: 9.00Southern Utah Summer 2023: 10.17Utah Summer Side Events B 2023: 9.32Back to School Utah 2023: 9.15Utah Valley Open 2023: 9.56CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 8.57Utah Championship 2023: 9.89Utah Snowball Bash 2023: 8.56Utah Ice Cubing 2024: 9.05Utah Newcomers 2024: 7.41Utah Puzzling for Awareness 2024: 8.07Southern Utah Summer 2024: 9.63Utah Valley Favorites 2024: 8.94CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024: 8.45Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.91Back to School Utah 2024: 7.74Utah Cubing with Culture 2024: 9.75Utah Valley Open 2024: 9.88Spanish Fork PM 2024: 8.28Utah Ice Cubing 2025: 9.29Wolverine Weekdays 1 Orem 2025: 9.92Utah Newcomers 2025: 8.86Utah Speedcubing Pride 2025: 9.18Rocky Mountain Championship 2025: 8.32Utah All-Stars 2026: 10.18Utah Cubing Classic 2026: 7.30Rocky Mountain Championship 2026: 7.167.1615.2429 Jan 202221 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 her.

  • Canyon Pettitt — met in 266 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
  • Isaac Myers — met in 232 rounds, finished ahead 78 times
  • Cade Beck — met in 230 rounds, finished ahead 91 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.16 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as she improves.