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Zachary Van De Water

3×3 · top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023WATE02

Zachary Van De Water has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.55, set at Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,221st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since January 2023, he has put 1,003 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.64 in January 2023 to 7.55, a 55% improvement. Zachary has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time
7.55
signature single · Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024
1,003
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.559.48
top 2.1%1,221 / 59,724
2×22.303.31
top 7.0%2,793 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.935.57
top 7.3%1,873 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed15.1318.48
top 8.4%1,111 / 15,683
5×51:06.561:10.32
top 9.4%732 / 9,401
Skewb3.775.30
top 9.4%1,439 / 18,907
Megaminx1:00.881:04.29
top 10.5%721 / 7,841
4×438.7841.72
top 10.7%1,579 / 19,072
Clock7.568.77
top 13.2%1,004 / 8,927
6×62:08.302:15.83
top 14.6%529 / 4,196
Square-114.7419.57
top 15.8%1,070 / 6,743
7×73:54.024:06.96
top 28.5%799 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:19.374:03.01
top 39.8%838 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves47.33
early days — 3 solves1,310 / 2,040
4×4 blindfolded18:47.00—
early days — 2 solves370 / 440

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

Troy Story 2023: 16.64Garden City Winter 2023: 14.57NJIT Spring 2023: 15.82South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 12.78North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023: 13.91Wilmington Warmup 2023: 17.51Return to Quabbin 2023: 13.74Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023: 13.02Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 11.71Northampton Fall A 2023: 9.63Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 11.06Manhattan Mini A 2023: 10.11Connecticut Winter 2024: 10.95WPI Winter 2024: 11.92New-Cumberland County 2024: 10.23Spring into Summit 2024: 9.08Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 7.55High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 10.35M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 9.95Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 10.60Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024: 10.98Amherst Fall 2024: 10.51Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 7.85Pop Off Princeton 2025: 8.07New Providence Spring AM 2026: 8.49Hudson Valley Spring 2026: 8.587.5517.5114 Jan 202313 Jun 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Rex Ozsvath — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 31 times
  • Shaun Mack — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead twice

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.55 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.