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Stone Payne

4×4 · top 0.77% of 83,917 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018SIMP06

Stone Payne has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 25.28, set at Cubes in the Mountains WV 2025, puts him in the top 0.77% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 127th in the United States. Until January 2014, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 75 competitions since June 2018, he has put 2,417 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.98 in June 2018 to 6.77, a 73% improvement. Stone has entered 75 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.77% of 83,917 all-time
25.28
signature single · Cubes in the Mountains WV 2025
2,417
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×425.2829.76
top 0.77%127 / 19,072
5×547.0854.92
top 1.1%93 / 9,401
3×36.777.98
top 1.1%686 / 59,724
2×21.643.08
top 2.8%1,078 / 40,951
6×61:35.261:41.59
top 2.9%106 / 4,196
7×72:25.802:33.94
top 3.1%82 / 3,184
3×3 one-handed12.9416.46
top 4.3%636 / 15,683
Skewb3.566.32
top 8.1%1,246 / 18,907
Megaminx1:02.381:07.14
top 11.3%761 / 7,841
Pyraminx5.5911.52
top 17.0%4,520 / 28,708
Clock9.1211.04
top 20.6%1,586 / 8,927
Square-126.3437.84
top 42.1%2,733 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves45.67
top 65.6%1,364 / 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

Maryland 2018: 24.98Fredericksburg Summer Open 2018: 18.62Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 12.57TJHSST Fall 2018: 14.31CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 11.39CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 12.38Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 12.20TJHSST Fall 2019: 13.89Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 13.18Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 12.63Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 9.61Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 10.41Owings Mills Summer 2022: 8.69Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 9.62River Hill Fall 2022: 8.79Crystal City Winter 2023: 8.62Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 9.08Potomac Spring 2023: 8.50Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 8.79TJHSST Spring 2023: 7.85Cubing in the Lion's Den 2023: 7.32CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.04Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 8.65Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 8.61River Hill Fall 2023: 8.27Virginia Championship 2023: 8.68MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 8.64NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 8.10Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 7.47UMBC Winter 2024: 8.28Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 7.77River Hill Spring 2024: 8.55Cubing at Carson 2024: 7.50New Jersey Championship 2024: 8.51Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 8.80Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 8.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.59Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 7.31Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 7.61UMBC Fall 2024: 7.53CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 6.95Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 8.66River Hill Fall 2024: 7.86Bethesda Winter Wonderland 2025: 7.08Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 7.62PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 7.38New-Cumberland County 2025: 8.09Cubes in the Mountains WV 2025: 7.72Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 6.77Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 6.85River Hill Spring 2025: 7.56UMBC Spring 2025: 7.40East Berlin Eccentric Blocks PA 2025: 6.88TJHSST Spring 2025: 8.82Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.40More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 7.33Fredericksburg Summer AM 2025: 7.73UMBC Fall 2025: 7.84River Hill Fall 2025: 7.50Fredericksburg Winter PM 2026: 8.87UMBC Winter 2026: 7.29TJHSST Winter 2026: 7.54NYU Spring 2026: 7.79Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 7.23Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026: 7.94CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 7.51Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 10.44Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 7.556.7724.9830 Jun 201814 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-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
  • A sub-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 7.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.