People · Canada
Tristan Lee
3×3 · top 3.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017LEET01
Tristan Lee has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.24, set at BC Championship 2026, puts him in the top 3.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 318th in Canada. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 33 competitions since January 2017, he has put 1,184 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.47 in January 2017 to 8.24, a 58% improvement. Tristan has entered 33 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.24 | 10.01 | top 3.2% | 318 / 10,392 | |
| 4×4 | 31.40 | 37.63 | top 3.7% | 87 / 3,118 | |
| 2×2 | 2.11 | 3.70 | top 5.5% | 349 / 7,173 | |
| Megaminx | 58.03 | 1:03.86 | top 9.0% | 79 / 1,375 | |
| 5×5 | 1:06.21 | 1:13.50 | top 9.1% | 105 / 1,499 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.85 | 7.86 | top 12.3% | 464 / 4,858 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.22 | 21.27 | top 13.1% | 282 / 2,620 | |
| 6×6 | 2:33.46 | 2:41.42 | top 27.3% | 139 / 665 | |
| 7×7 | 3:56.23 | 4:28.51 | top 29.2% | 119 / 503 | |
| Skewb | 6.70 | 9.75 | top 31.3% | 766 / 2,907 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 7 Aug 2026Three personal bests in one day at BC Championship 2026.
- 2 Dec 2023Four personal bests in one day at UBC Big & Blind 2023.
- 5 Jan 2019First sub-10 3×3: 8.58 at UBC Open 2019.
- 7 Apr 2018Three personal bests in one day at Fraser Valley Spring Open 2018.
- 6 Jan 2018Five personal bests in one day at Vancouver Open Winter 2018.
- 4 Nov 2017Three personal bests in one day at Whistler Open 2017.
Competitions
- BC Championship 2026 · 7 Aug 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- NUS Open 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up Vancouver 2025 · 14 Jun 2025 — 1 personal best set
- PR Time in Burnaby 2025 · 8 Feb 2025
- Maple Ridge Favourites 2025 · 4 Jan 2025
- BC Championship 2024 · 16 Aug 2024
- Vancouver Newcomers Afternoon 2024 · 16 Mar 2024
- Burnaby Basics 2024 · 3 Feb 2024
- UBC Big & Blind 2023 · 2 Dec 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing Around Metrotown 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Canadian Championship 2023 · 13 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Vancouver Pride 2023 · 11 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing on Par A 2023 · 22 Apr 2023
- Richmond Favourites 2023 · 14 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Richmond Open Summer A 2022 · 6 Aug 2022
- BC Cubing Comeback A 2021 · 25 Sep 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Downtown Vancouver Winter 2020 · 8 Feb 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- UBC Open 2020 · 4 Jan 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019 · 23 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Fraser Valley Spring Open 2019 · 4 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- UBC Open 2019 · 5 Jan 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Vancouver Select Winter 2018 · 2 Dec 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Vancouver Select 2018 · 30 Sep 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- St. John's Spring Open 2018 · 23 Jun 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Fraser Valley Spring Open 2018 · 7 Apr 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Vancouver Open Winter 2018 · 6 Jan 2018 — 5 personal bests set
- Whistler Open 2017 · 4 Nov 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- SnoCo Cubing Fall 2017 · 21 Oct 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Northwest Championships 2017 · 11 Aug 2017 — 7 personal bests set
- Vancouver Open Summer 2017 · 10 Jun 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Puget Sound Winter 2017 · 25 Feb 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Vancouver Open Winter 2017 · 7 Jan 2017
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.
- Noah Stelting — met in 179 rounds, finished ahead 29 times
- Kenny Zhong — met in 176 rounds, finished ahead 47 times
- Ethan Rusnak — met in 161 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 1.40 away.
Targets move as he improves.