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Trace Powers

3×3 · top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2024 · 2024POWE03

Trace Powers has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.67, set at Fredericksburg Summer PM 2025, puts him in the top 9.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,162nd in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since February 2024, he has put 331 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.13 in February 2024 to 10.67, a 41% improvement. Trace has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.67
signature single · Fredericksburg Summer PM 2025
331
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.6712.31
top 9.5%5,162 / 59,724
2×22.594.41
top 9.8%3,865 / 40,951
Pyraminx6.1111.20
top 20.8%5,601 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed24.1627.42
top 31.9%4,154 / 15,683
Clock12.2415.88
top 36.1%2,862 / 8,927
Skewb7.5812.03
top 38.1%6,523 / 18,907
4×41:05.121:14.88
top 41.9%6,879 / 19,072
5×51:54.172:09.19
top 45.4%3,750 / 9,401
Megaminx2:45.38—
top 68.3%5,256 / 7,841
6×65:19.26—
early days — 2 solves3,450 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves53 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,726 / 2,040
7×77:41.40—
early days — 1 solve2,744 / 3,184
Square-11:37.59—
early days — 2 solves6,558 / 6,743

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

ODU Big Blue Winter 2024: 18.13CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 16.06Colonial Cube Clash VA 2024: 18.13Charlotte Winter 2025: 12.37Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 14.41Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 14.51Virginia Championship 2025: 10.81Fredericksburg Summer PM 2025: 10.67ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 12.64Gobbler Cube Day Winter at VT 2026: 11.87Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 13.68RVA Spring 2026: 14.06Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.4210.6718.1317 Feb 20242 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.