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Zach Goldman

3×3 · top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2010 · 2010GOLD01

Zach Goldman has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.49, set at Liberty Science Center Open B 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 102 competitions since December 2010, he has put 4,128 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.46 in December 2010 to 7.49, a 76% improvement. Zach has entered 102 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time
7.49
signature single · Liberty Science Center Open B 2025
4,128
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.499.23
top 2.0%1,166 / 59,724
2×21.523.30
top 2.2%888 / 40,951
4×431.6035.07
top 3.9%627 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed12.8815.25
top 4.2%617 / 15,683
5×51:00.351:10.57
top 5.7%469 / 9,401
Pyraminx3.845.83
top 6.9%1,757 / 28,708
Skewb3.436.40
top 7.3%1,129 / 18,907
6×62:11.952:23.55
top 16.3%581 / 4,196
7×73:40.663:52.79
top 23.7%676 / 3,184
Square-128.4149.11
top 46.4%3,028 / 6,743
Clock20.6522.74
top 66.6%5,715 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded3:54.974:08.57
top 66.9%1,393 / 2,092

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

Liberty Science Center Open 2010: 31.46St. Joseph's College Winter 2011: 27.40Newark Head to Head 2011: 19.41Cornell Spring 2011: 21.13Park Ridge Open 2011: 19.38Hackley Summer 2011: 14.65Yale Fall 2011: 16.00Princeton Fall 2011: 15.58Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 15.40Bridgewater Open 2011: 14.27River Hill Winter 2012: 12.63Newark Head to Head 2012: 13.03St. Joseph's College Winter 2012: 12.71Harvard Spring 2012: 14.59Yale Spring 2012: 10.78Captain's Cove competition 2012: 11.02Jersey Shore Open 2012: 10.94St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 10.13Yale Fall 2012: 13.52Princeton Fall 2012: 12.21Levittown Open 2012: 12.09Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 11.30Monmouth County Open 2013: 11.38Princeton Spring 2013: 11.58Yale Spring 2013: 10.71Newark Head to Head 2013: 11.11World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 11.66CCFC Fall 2013: 11.20Yale Fall 2013: 10.30Starlight Open 2013: 10.73Liberty Science Center Open 2013: 10.22CCFC Winter 2014: 9.96Princeton Winter 2014: 10.46Yale Spring 2014: 9.35CCFC BLD Day 2014: 10.09US Nationals 2014: 9.97Starlight Open 2014: 10.66Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 9.18Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 10.34Yale Spring 2015: 10.14Doylestown Spring 2015: 9.84US Nationals 2015: 10.27Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 9.23ODU Big Blue Open 2015: 8.86Virginia Open Fall 2015: 8.62River Hill Fall 2015: 8.31Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 9.56Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 8.41Big Apple Spring 2016: 9.70Northeastern Spring 2016: 8.74Cube For A Cure Spring 2016: 9.94Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 8.80Lexington Summer 2016: 8.56Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2016: 9.12Clifton Winter 2017: 9.84New York City Winter 2017: 8.29Texas Two-Day Showdown 2017: 9.98Lexington Summer 2017: 7.99CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.21Southern Championships 2017: 7.64Northwest Championships 2017: 8.35Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 9.52Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 8.25New York City Winter 2018: 9.06Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 8.28Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 8.84Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 8.80CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 8.67CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 8.85Coach Pigeon 2018: 9.04Cardinal Bird Fiesta 2018: 8.77Brooklyn 2018: 10.32First State 2018: 9.09CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 8.84Pennsylvania 2018: 8.41CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 9.07Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 8.26New Hope Open Winter 2019: 9.67Long Island Winter 2019: 8.50Binghamton Winter 2019: 8.88SBU Spring 2019: 7.96Ridge Cubing 2019: 8.53Burke Mountain Cubing 2019: 8.98Brooklyn 2019: 9.35CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.00Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 9.45Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 8.64Scranton Scramble 2020: 9.42Princeton Winter 2020: 9.79Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 8.55CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 9.01NJIT Spring 2023: 9.44Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 8.39Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 9.30Rhode Island Winter 2024: 8.69Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024: 8.98NYU Winter 2024: 9.28Flushing Glow PM 2024: 8.87Binghamton Winter 2025: 8.58Liberty Science Center Open B 2025: 7.49Catskills Spring 2025: 7.827.4931.4618 Dec 201023 Mar 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.