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Toby Waters

3×3 · top 0.25% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018WATE02

Toby Waters has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.50, set at River Hill Spring 2022, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 168th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since June 2018, he has put 1,284 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.00 in June 2018 to 5.50, a 74% improvement. Toby has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.25% of 284,439 all-time
5.50
signature single · River Hill Spring 2022
1,284
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.506.99
top 0.25%168 / 59,724
2×21.252.08
top 1.2%501 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.003.94
top 3.6%964 / 28,708
4×431.5836.88
top 3.8%621 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed12.6815.32
top 3.9%576 / 15,683
Skewb3.165.31
top 5.8%890 / 18,907
5×51:03.221:13.89
top 7.3%574 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves29.67
top 9.9%229 / 2,040
Megaminx1:15.761:30.70
top 19.1%1,301 / 7,841
Square-116.5220.39
top 19.9%1,339 / 6,743
6×62:42.602:53.05
top 32.2%1,135 / 4,196
7×75:02.595:10.34
top 51.4%1,495 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded3:12.83—
top 56.0%1,185 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 24:12—
early days — 1 solve646 / 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

Maryland 2018: 21.00Pennsylvania 2018: 14.26Lower Moreland Fall 2018: 14.35CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 10.88Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 10.48River Hill Spring 2019: 8.34CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.35Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019: 9.55No Place For DNF Fall 2019: 9.28Scranton Scramble 2020: 9.19Constitution State Winter 2020: 8.43Skewbadelphia Winter 2020: 8.31Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 6.95River Hill Spring 2022: 5.50Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 6.49Pretzel Mania 2022: 5.87Princeton Fall 2022: 7.13River Hill Fall 2022: 6.69Dunkirk Winter 2023: 6.22Pretzel Mania 2023: 7.12CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.72Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 6.44New-Cumberland County 2024: 7.14Happy Valley Spring 2024: 6.85Happy Valley Fall PA 2024: 6.70URJC Open 2025: 6.60Bayonne Atoutcubes Open 2025: 6.21Getafe Open 2025: 5.58Axemann Fall 2025: 6.83Happy Valley Spring PA 2026: 6.645.5021.0030 Jun 201819 Apr 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.