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Zachary Hersch

3×3 · top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2019 · 2019HERS01

Zachary Hersch has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.75, set at East Berlin Favorites PA 2024, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,395th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since February 2019, he has put 705 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 32.32 in February 2019 to 8.75, a 73% improvement. Zachary has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.75
signature single · East Berlin Favorites PA 2024
705
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.7511.07
top 4.3%2,395 / 59,724
Skewb3.188.43
top 5.9%910 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed14.1621.75
top 6.4%885 / 15,683
2×22.283.43
top 6.9%2,720 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.106.17
top 8.2%2,087 / 28,708
4×438.2451.03
top 10.0%1,495 / 19,072
Megaminx1:10.881:18.36
top 16.2%1,106 / 7,841
5×51:24.991:36.30
top 23.3%1,804 / 9,401
6×62:40.412:47.06
top 31.0%1,094 / 4,196
7×74:36.664:52.40
top 43.4%1,250 / 3,184
Clock13.9917.45
top 43.8%3,518 / 8,927
Square-11:04.74—
top 86.5%5,822 / 6,743

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

CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 32.32River Hill Spring 2019: 25.02CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 22.12Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 21.23Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 17.41Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 18.74Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 14.78Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 11.08Empire State Spring 2022: 11.39River Hill Spring 2022: 11.91Country Roads Huntington 2022: 11.20Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 11.69Think In Fink Fall 2022: 9.51River Hill Fall 2022: 11.56Pretzel Mania 2023: 10.23Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 10.86Cougar Qualifier 2023: 11.49CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.77Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 8.79Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 10.54Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 12.12Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 12.13Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 11.21East Berlin Favorites PA 2024: 8.758.7532.3216 Feb 201929 Sep 2024

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 0.75 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.