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Walter Lee Wilson
3×3 · top 0.18% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023WILS21
Walter Lee Wilson has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.27, set at Tacoma Winter 2025, puts him in the top 0.18% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 125th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since April 2023, he has put 1,427 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.18 in April 2023 to 5.27, a 57% improvement. Walter has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.27 | 6.82 | top 0.18% | 125 / 59,724 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 9.56 | 13.90 | top 0.78% | 120 / 15,683 | |
| 2×2 | 1.45 | 2.63 | top 1.9% | 778 / 40,951 | |
| Square-1 | 7.95 | 10.64 | top 3.0% | 216 / 6,743 | |
| Megaminx | 45.05 | 55.90 | top 3.1% | 226 / 7,841 | |
| 4×4 | 31.89 | 36.95 | top 4.1% | 655 / 19,072 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.27 | 5.06 | top 4.6% | 1,197 / 28,708 | |
| Skewb | 3.91 | 5.48 | top 10.3% | 1,572 / 18,907 | |
| Clock | 7.22 | 9.03 | top 11.8% | 904 / 8,927 | |
| 5×5 | 1:12.01 | 1:16.70 | top 13.1% | 1,008 / 9,401 |
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
- 31 May 2025Three personal bests in one day at Kent Spring 2025.
- 25 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Bellevue Squan Fest January 2025.
- 14 Dec 2024Four personal bests in one day at Kirkland Pyra Fest 2024.
- 19 Oct 2024Three personal bests in one day at Bellingham Fall 2024.
- 18 Jul 2024Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024.
- 5 May 2024Five personal bests in one day at Olympia Classic 2024.
Competitions
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026
- Kent Spring 2026 · 30 May 2026
- Dawgs at Denny UW 2026 · 9 May 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Lakewood Spring 2026 · 18 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- North Sound Spring 2026 · 4 Apr 2026
- Lakewood Fall 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Warm Up Seattle 2025 · 28 Jun 2025
- Kent Spring 2025 · 31 May 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025 · 25 May 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Newcomers 2025 · 22 Mar 2025
- Bellevue Squan Fest January 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Tacoma Winter 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024 · 28 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Kirkland Pyra Fest 2024 · 14 Dec 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Lakewood Fall 2024 · 16 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Bellevue Squan Fest 2024 · 2 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Bellingham Fall 2024 · 19 Oct 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Oregon Championship 2024 · 13 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kent Summer 2024 · 7 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Panhandle Lake Cube & Camp 2024 · 27 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024 · 28 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Bellingham Spring 2024 · 1 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Olympia Classic 2024 · 5 May 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Lakewood Newcomers 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Back To Tri-Cities 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- UW or U Don't 2023 · 2 Dec 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023 · 10 Nov 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Lakewood Fall 2023 · 14 Oct 2023
- Lucky Lynnwood 2023 · 30 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Kent Summer 2023 · 9 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Spokane Summer 2023 · 26 Aug 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Bay Area Speedcubin' 49 - Berkeley 2023 · 8 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Spring 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Welcome to Olympia 2023 · 29 Apr 2023
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.
- Anishk Arora — met in 242 rounds, finished ahead 127 times
- Miles Goodman — met in 197 rounds, finished ahead 129 times
- Ishaan Bansal — met in 196 rounds, finished ahead 131 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.27 away.
- A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.