People · United States
Willy Lee
3×3 · top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019LEEW01
Willy Lee has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.05, set at An Afternoon in Nyack 2024, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,175th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since April 2019, he has put 179 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.71 in April 2019 to 10.05, a 32% improvement. Willy has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% 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 | 10.05 | 11.25 | top 7.6% | 4,175 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.53 | 6.00 | top 9.2% | 3,622 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 25.56 | 31.77 | top 35.7% | 4,711 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 1:00.66 | 1:09.14 | top 37.2% | 5,999 / 19,072 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.50 | 16.32 | top 49.0% | 14,223 / 28,708 |
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
- 16 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024.
- 18 Mar 2023Four personal bests in one day at NJIT Spring 2023.
- 20 Apr 2019First competition: Empire State Spring 2019. A 14.71 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Liberty Science Center Fall B 2025 · 14 Sep 2025
- Summit Summer 2025 · 15 Jun 2025
- An Afternoon in Nyack 2024 · 29 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Edgemont Cubing 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubes on the Bayside 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- NJIT Spring 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Arcadia Summer 2019 · 22 Jun 2019
- Brooklyn 2019 · 25 May 2019
- George School Open 2019 · 11 May 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Empire State Spring 2019 · 20 Apr 2019
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.
- Raphael Manalo — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
- Evan Liu — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead
- Jerry Yao — met in 20 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
Targets move as he improves.