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Will Hamilton

3×3 · top 0.27% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2014 · 2014HAMI02

Will Hamilton has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.55, set at Circle City Turbocharged 2023, puts him in the top 0.27% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 180th in the United States. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 66 competitions since October 2014, he has put 1,629 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.39 in October 2014 to 5.55, an 86% improvement. Will has entered 66 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.27% of 284,439 all-time
5.55
signature single · Circle City Turbocharged 2023
1,629
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.557.17
top 0.27%180 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed9.8012.94
top 0.91%145 / 15,683
2×21.512.48
top 2.2%873 / 40,951
4×430.3737.88
top 3.0%495 / 19,072
5×51:03.671:10.34
top 7.6%596 / 9,401
6×62:20.002:25.62
top 20.5%722 / 4,196
7×74:17.114:30.46
early days — 3 solves1,027 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 2 solves969 / 2,040
Pyraminx10.3713.16
top 55.9%16,340 / 28,708
Square-157.98—
early days — 1 solve5,500 / 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

Antelope Valley Fall 2014: 38.39Newport Winter Open 2014: 24.25Nub Open 2015: 17.44St. Francis Winter Open 2015: 18.34Caltech Winter Open 2015: 12.91Orange Coast Puzzle Meet 2015: 14.37SoCal Supercomp 2015: 11.67US Nationals 2015: 11.82Nisei Week 2015: 11.06Irvine Fall 2015: 9.94Caltech Fall 2015: 10.25Berkeley Fall 2015: 10.59Oregon State Alpha 2016: 10.05Nub Open 2016: 9.66Caltech Winter 2016: 8.82Newport Spring 2016: 10.20St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 9.53Poly Cubed 2016: 8.97SoCal Supercomp 2016: 9.30US Nationals 2016: 9.60Nisei Week 2016: 9.15Newport Fall 2016: 9.812FTI San Diego 2016: 9.43Caltech Winter 2017: 8.26Qualifornia 2017: 10.66OCSEF Open 2017: 8.06Cerritos Open 2017: 10.86CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.62Nisei Week 2017: 8.23Fresno Fall 2017: 8.52Newport Fall 2017: 8.99A Bruin Cube Day 2018: 9.03West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 8.15West Coast Cubing Tour - Cupertino 2018: 8.69CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 8.09SacCubing V 2018: 8.61Anaheim Fall 2018: 7.92Poly Cubed 2018: 7.69Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 7.44Mudd Winter 2019: 8.91UCSD Winter 2019: 7.19West LA Spring 2019: 7.41CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 7.93Warm Up Sydney 2019: 7.20WCA World Championship 2019: 7.64Nisei Week 2019: 7.20San Diego Summer 2019: 7.97Santa Barbara Fall 2019: 6.84Bay Area Speedcubin' 22 2019: 7.21UCSD Winter 2020: 7.17West LA Winter 2020: 7.10Idaho Summer B 2021: 7.41CubingUSA Western Championship 2021: 6.81Anaheim Winter B 2022: 7.11Cal Poly SLO Spring 2022: 6.58San Diego Spring 2022: 7.00Geffen Spring 2022: 7.57Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 6.05Circle City Summer 2022: 6.59Marshall Middle Slice 2022: 6.82Diamond Bar September 2022: 6.29WCC Western Championship 2022: 6.80San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 6.58Circle City Turbocharged 2023: 5.55Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 6.315.5538.394 Oct 201412 Aug 2023

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.

  • Max Park — met in 214 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Elijah Brown — met in 201 rounds, finished ahead 116 times
  • Michael Young — met in 189 rounds, finished ahead 100 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.