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Violet Palmer

3×3 · top 21.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2025 · 2025PALM12

Violet Palmer has been competing for 10 months. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.08, set at Skowhegan Puzzlefest 2026, puts her in the top 21.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,455th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since October 2025, she has put 71 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 16.84 in November 2025 to 14.08, a 16% improvement. Violet has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.2% of 284,439 all-time
14.08
signature single · Skowhegan Puzzlefest 2026
71
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×314.0816.60
top 21.2%11,455 / 59,724
4×455.091:01.06
top 30.8%4,860 / 19,072
Square-127.7659.33
top 45.1%2,933 / 6,743
2×27.4212.45
top 63.7%26,242 / 40,951
6×65:26.985:45.17
early days — 3 solves3,536 / 4,196

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

Saint Mike's Cube Fest VT 2025: 16.84Ogunquit Winter 2025: 15.00Skowhegan Puzzlefest 2026: 14.08UnOrono-thodox Blocks 2026: 16.23Hampton Beach Summer 2026: 14.1814.0816.848 Nov 20251 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.08 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 5.09 away.

Targets move as she improves.