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Will Newhoff

3×3 · top 0.25% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2015 · 2015NEWH01

Will Newhoff has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.51, set at Berkeley Fall 2018, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 171st in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 59 competitions since February 2015, he has put 2,371 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.53 in February 2015 to 5.51, a 65% improvement. Will has entered 59 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.25% of 284,439 all-time
5.51
signature single · Berkeley Fall 2018
2,371
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.517.33
top 0.25%171 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed9.8713.28
top 0.97%154 / 15,683
2×21.392.40
top 1.7%673 / 40,951
4×428.1832.90
top 1.9%312 / 19,072
Skewb2.804.86
top 4.0%631 / 18,907
Pyraminx3.536.19
top 5.6%1,446 / 28,708
5×51:00.861:06.43
top 6.0%489 / 9,401
Square-110.6016.92
top 7.2%521 / 6,743
Megaminx1:06.681:16.97
top 13.8%939 / 7,841
6×62:07.392:11.03
top 14.2%519 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves38.33
top 14.8%327 / 2,040
7×73:18.943:44.23
top 16.0%447 / 3,184
Clock10.6912.21
top 28.5%2,210 / 8,927

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

Berkeley Winter 2015: 15.53BASC 5: Everything But 2x2 2015: 16.40SPCS Stanford Spring 2015: 15.86San Diego Summer Splash 2015: 13.21BASC 7 2015: 13.61Berkeley Summer 2015: 10.27Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2015: 10.16Bay Area Speedcubin' 8 2016: 9.81Berkeley Winter 2016: 9.44Bay Area Speedcubin' 9 2016: 7.79US Nationals 2016: 7.47Berkeley Summer 2016: 8.39Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016: 7.90Berkeley Fall 2016: 8.22Armin Open 2017: 8.17Berkeley Winter 2017: 7.91SacCubing I 2017: 7.58Bay Area Speedcubin' 10 2017: 8.25CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 7.99SacCubing II 2017: 7.45Berkeley Summer 2017: 10.21San Francisco Bay Open 2017: 8.12Berkeley Fall 2017: 7.61South Enough 2018: 6.95CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 7.86West Coast Cubing Tour - Cupertino 2018: 7.25CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 7.07SacCubing V 2018: 6.99Berkeley Summer 2018: 7.35Bay Area Speedcubin' 12 2018: 6.65Berkeley Fall 2018: 5.51SacCubing VI 2019: 5.85Bay Area Speedcubin' 13 2019: 6.63Bay Area Speedcubin' 15 2019: 5.56CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 5.58CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 7.37Bay Area Speedcubin' 19 2019: 7.09SacCubing VIII 2019: 6.96Berkeley Summer 2019: 6.63Bay Area Speedcubin' 20 2019: 6.80Berkeley Fall 2019: 6.28Bay Area Speedcubin' 21 2019: 6.79Bay Area Speedcubin' 22 2019: 6.06Bay Area Speedcubin' 23 2020: 6.83SacCubing IX 2020: 6.50Bay Area Speedcubin' 24 2020: 6.46Let's Try Again Spokane 2022: 6.26Bay Area Speedcubin' 32 LIVE - SSF 2022: 6.01Berkeley Summer 2022: 6.53Bay Area Speedcubin' 34 - San Ramon 2022: 6.48Bay Area Speedcubin' 35 - Pacifica 2022: 6.71CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 6.79Berkeley Summer 2024: 7.57Berkeley Fall 2025: 7.015.5116.4021 Feb 20154 Oct 2025

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.51 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.87 away.

Targets move as he improves.