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Zachary Walden

3×3 one-handed · top 0.25% of 73,695 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018WALD04

Zachary Walden has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.25, set at Oklahoma Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 40th in the United States. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 55 competitions since July 2018, he has put 2,780 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.37 in July 2018 to 6.20, a 40% improvement. Zachary has entered 55 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.25% of 73,695 all-time
8.25
signature single · Oklahoma Championship 2025
2,780
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed8.2513.87
top 0.25%40 / 15,683
3×36.207.76
top 0.62%410 / 59,724
4×426.3932.83
top 1.1%197 / 19,072
5×548.7755.10
top 1.4%123 / 9,401
2×21.463.12
top 2.0%793 / 40,951
6×61:34.531:39.79
top 2.7%102 / 4,196
7×72:39.822:48.44
top 5.4%144 / 3,184
Megaminx1:05.401:15.38
top 13.0%885 / 7,841
Skewb4.588.18
top 15.1%2,364 / 18,907
Pyraminx5.528.21
top 16.6%4,402 / 28,708
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves42.67
top 40.9%879 / 2,040
Square-128.4543.13
top 46.5%3,038 / 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

DFW Cubing Fiesta July 2018: 10.37Arkansas Cubing Drive 2018: 9.66Oklahoma Open 2019: 8.36Oklahoma Spring 2019: 8.72CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 8.99Dallas Warm Up 2019: 8.02Oklahoma Fall 2019: 7.27OU Winter 2019: 8.53Kansas Cubing Open Spring 2022: 7.81DFW Cubing Summer 2022: 8.12Kansas City Krazy Cubing 2022: 7.94Cube More in Ardmore 2022: 8.05Cube Even More in Wichita 2022: 9.92CubingUSA Texas Championship 2022: 8.54DFW Cubing Winter 2023: 8.77Springfield Winter Open 2023: 7.64Arkansolve 2023: 7.74Twisters in Tulsa 2023: 7.57DFW Spring Warmup 2023: 8.15DFW Cubing Spring 2023: 6.96CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 7.25CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 7.30Air Capital Cubing Summer 2023: 7.45Springfield Summer Open 2023: 6.21Lawton OKtoberfest Fall 2023: 8.02KCKC 3 Cubing for Cake 2023: 8.68Longhorn Cube Day 2023: 7.11Oklahoma Fall 2023: 6.28UCO Cubing Winter 2024: 7.07OKC Cube-Off Winter 2024: 7.78Wichita Family ArtVenture 2024: 6.39DFW Megacomp 2024: 8.03K-State Cubing Spring 2024: 8.34Missouri Summer Kickoff 2024: 6.87Oklahoma Championship 2024: 7.56Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.42CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 8.08KS Air Capital Cubing 2024: 8.02Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025: 7.40Welcome Back Tulsa 2025: 6.20Arkansas Championship 2025: 7.55Oklahoma Championship 2025: 8.46Cubing in Cave Springs Arkansas 2025: 7.66Kansas Championship 2025: 7.57OKC Unorthodox Blocks 2025: 7.49Arkansolve Fall 2025: 7.62Tulsa Holiday Cube-Off 2025: 7.17OKC Winter 2026: 7.69Oklahoma Championship 2026: 7.21GAN Southern Championship 2026: 7.036.2010.3721 Jul 201811 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.

  • Ryan Pilat — met in 443 rounds, finished ahead 35 times
  • Jake Maddox — met in 316 rounds, finished ahead 114 times
  • Casey Ngo — met in 311 rounds, finished ahead 126 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.20 away.

Targets move as he improves.