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Tommy Szeliga

3×3 · top 0.74% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2012 · 2012SZEL01

Tommy Szeliga has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.37, set at South Deerfield Side Events 2023, puts him in the top 0.74% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 481st in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 187 competitions since June 2012, he has put 7,733 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 51.50 in June 2012 to 6.37, an 88% improvement. Tommy has entered 187 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.74% of 284,439 all-time
6.37
signature single · South Deerfield Side Events 2023
7,733
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.379.32
top 0.74%481 / 59,724
Square-16.288.61
top 0.98%81 / 6,743
2×21.342.99
top 1.5%611 / 40,951
Skewb2.535.08
top 3.0%457 / 18,907
4×432.6539.62
top 4.7%741 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed13.2818.46
top 4.8%688 / 15,683
Megaminx51.3758.09
top 5.7%409 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves34.33
top 6.2%149 / 2,040
Clock6.688.18
top 9.8%759 / 8,927
Pyraminx4.466.73
top 10.0%2,604 / 28,708
5×51:10.951:17.62
top 12.3%949 / 9,401
6×62:21.422:37.18
top 21.2%749 / 4,196
3×3 blindfolded1:28.452:02.82
top 22.5%457 / 2,092
7×73:59.844:14.78
top 30.6%856 / 3,184
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 16:08—
top 50.1%378 / 731
4×4 blindfolded13:57.00—
early days — 2 solves310 / 440

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

River Hill Summer 2012: 51.50Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2012: 26.72River Hill Winter 2013: 23.13Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2013: 18.94Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2013: 18.19Slow 'n Steady Fall 2013: 13.33River Hill Winter 2014: 15.34Virginia Open Spring 2014: 13.52US Nationals 2014: 12.75Starlight Open 2014: 11.94River Hill Summer 2014: 12.40Carnegie Mellon Fall 2014: 11.81Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 12.11Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 11.61River Hill Winter 2015: 11.91Yale Spring 2015: 11.20Virginia Open Spring 2015: 10.90Doylestown Spring 2015: 11.11Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2015: 10.37Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 10.78US Nationals 2015: 11.28Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 9.51Virginia Open Fall 2015: 10.42Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 10.03Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 7.95Princeton Winter 2016: 9.83Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 9.39Virginia Open Spring 2016: 9.37Manhasset Spring 2016: 9.10ODU Big Blue Spring 2016: 10.82Big Apple Spring 2016: 8.36Cube For A Cure Spring 2016: 9.88Cube4Cam 2016: 10.19Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 9.11Indiana 2016: 9.35US Nationals 2016: 10.24Michigan 2016: 7.99Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 9.24Severna Park Fall 2016: 9.71ODU Big Blue Winter 2016: 9.76Rockville Winter 2017: 9.61Ledgewood Winter Open 2017: 9.83Virginia Open Winter 2017: 8.72ODU Big Blue Spring 2017: 9.60Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 9.27Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 9.96NovaCube 2017: 8.09EZ Cubes Spring 2017: 8.12Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 7.48CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.75Severna Park Summer 2017: 9.75Rally In The Valley 2017: 9.48Gobbler Cube Day 2017: 9.59Maryland 2017: 8.06UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 9.00Severna Park Showdown 2017: 8.94Northern Neck Winter 2018: 8.60Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 8.73Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 8.28Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 9.20Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 9.41NovaCube 2018: 8.46Rutgers Spring 2018: 8.76River Hill Spring 2018: 8.36WFS Cubing Spring 2018: 8.92Tea Time Spring 2018: 7.31CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 8.12Rally In The Valley 2018: 10.05Maryland 2018: 9.70First State 2018: 10.27CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 9.19Pennsylvania 2018: 9.93Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 9.02Princeton Fall 2018: 8.14RVAutumn 2018: 9.93ODU Big Blue Fall 2018: 8.50TJHSST Fall 2018: 9.58Pittsburgh Open 2018: 9.00Northern Neck Winter 2019: 8.60Gobbler Cube Day Winter 2019: 10.05Battle of Virginia Beach Winter 2019: 8.62CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 9.79VES Spring 2019: 9.34Woodberry Forest School Cubing 2019: 8.12Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 7.95Virginia Qualifier 2019: 9.16River Hill Spring 2019: 9.83Richmond Spring 2019: 10.02Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 8.95Greensboro Summer 2019: 8.25Rally in the Valley 2019: 9.30CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.53Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 8.09Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019: 9.71Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 10.11Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019: 9.63TJHSST Fall 2019: 7.96Pittsburgh Fall 2019: 8.20Northern Neck Winter 2020: 10.53Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 10.12MLWGS Winter 2020: 9.47Princeton Winter 2020: 10.86Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 8.84Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 10.01Empire State Summer A 2021: 9.93Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 9.91Happy Valley Spring 2022: 8.58Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 9.93CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 8.99Fast In Mass 2022: 9.11Granite State 2022: 9.80Cubing in Beverly 2022: 9.69Amherst Open 2022: 9.16Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 8.44Maine Fall 2022: 8.66Burke Mountain Cubing 2022: 8.04Loon Cubikon 2022: 9.50Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 9.62New York New Year 2023: 9.94Puzzling in Providence 2023: 10.00Mum's the Word 2023: 8.89Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 9.43Garden City Winter 2023: 8.41Northampton Winter A 2023: 9.13Maine Spring 2023: 9.74Cape Cod 2023: 9.91Middleboro Cubikon 2023: 8.29Connecticut Spring 2023: 7.11New Hampshire Spring 2023: 9.10Cubehenge 2023: 9.38CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 8.02Return to Quabbin 2023: 9.19Silver City Side Events 2023: 9.94Quick in Quincy 2023: 9.37CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.47Winchester Weeknights IV 2023: 9.40Be Quick in Brunswick 2023: 9.37Elm City Kubikon 2023: 8.11South Deerfield Side Events 2023: 6.37CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 8.47Bay Area Speedcubin' 54 Live - SSF 2023: 8.98Rhode Island Winter 2024: 8.30The Battle of Lexington 2024: 8.85Quabbin Newcomers 2024: 9.31Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 8.39QuabbiNxN 2024: 8.47South Deerfield Clock Fest 2024: 10.08A Morning in Cambridge 2024: 9.35New Hampshire Summer 2024: 9.60Lexington Weeknights I 2024: 9.77Wakefield MA Summer 2024: 7.71Lexington Weeknights II 2024: 9.56Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.78Lexington Weeknights V 2024: 10.59CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 9.05Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 9.76Ocean State Cubikon 2024: 9.89QuabbiNxN Fall 2024: 9.30Wakefield Winter 2024: 10.47Cubing at the Course CT 2025: 10.21Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 8.34The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 9.31Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 12.086.3751.5016 Jun 20123 Jul 2025

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 0.37 away.
  • A sub-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.