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Zach Hoffart

3×3 · top 5.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024HOFF04

Zach Hoffart has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.20, set at Fast in Fargo 2026, puts him in the top 5.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,986th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since September 2024, he has put 139 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.55 in September 2024 to 9.20, a 59% improvement. Zach has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.20
signature single · Fast in Fargo 2026
139
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.2011.23
top 5.3%2,986 / 59,724
4×444.7050.34
top 17.9%2,731 / 19,072
2×23.444.82
top 19.4%7,631 / 40,951
Skewb6.3711.76
top 28.7%4,708 / 18,907
7×74:11.014:23.60
early days — 3 solves969 / 3,184
3×3 one-handed29.3236.88
top 45.1%6,101 / 15,683
Clock14.8624.24
top 47.4%3,833 / 8,927
Pyraminx10.3513.87
top 55.7%16,299 / 28,708
Megaminx2:22.982:39.71
top 58.0%4,346 / 7,841
6×63:49.064:00.06
top 61.9%2,391 / 4,196

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

Grand Forks 2024: 22.55Moorhead Madness 2025: 11.37Grand Forks 2025: 10.82Fast in Fargo 2026: 9.209.2022.5514 Sep 202430 May 2026

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.20 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 4.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.