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Will Walter

3×3 · top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017WALT01

Will Walter has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.49, set at Davis Summer 2025, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,166th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since March 2017, he has put 423 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.71 in March 2017 to 7.49, a 73% improvement. Will has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time
7.49
signature single · Davis Summer 2025
423
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.499.71
top 2.0%1,166 / 59,724
2×22.393.86
top 7.9%3,103 / 40,951
Square-112.8016.44
top 11.5%797 / 6,743
Pyraminx4.997.60
top 13.1%3,413 / 28,708
4×443.0746.35
top 15.8%2,402 / 19,072
5×51:17.681:27.89
top 17.3%1,344 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed22.9327.22
top 28.6%3,686 / 15,683
Megaminx1:52.801:57.94
top 42.0%3,047 / 7,841
Skewb9.6611.32
top 52.8%9,517 / 18,907
7×75:42.15—
early days — 1 solve1,893 / 3,184
Clock20.84—
top 67.1%5,769 / 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

SacCubing I 2017: 27.71Berkeley Spring 2018: 16.13SacCubing V 2018: 13.56SacCubing VI 2019: 13.93Bay Area Speedcubin' 16 2019: 11.08SacCubing VII 2019: 10.79Bay Area Speedcubin' 18 2019: 11.10SacCubing VIII 2019: 10.31Bay Area Speedcubin' 20 2019: 11.46Berkeley Fall 2019: 11.52Bay Area Speedcubin' 23 2020: 7.97SacCubing IX 2020: 9.86Cal Poly SLO Spring 2022: 9.17SacCubing XII 2022: 8.78Davis Summer 2024: 8.89Santa Rosa Spring 2025: 8.41Davis Summer 2025: 7.497.4927.7125 Mar 20172 Aug 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.49 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.