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Zavian Valedon

3×3 · top 0.15% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016VALE01

Zavian Valedon has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.14, set at NJIT Spring 2023, puts him in the top 0.15% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 105th in the United States. Until November 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 67 competitions since January 2016, he has put 2,478 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.39 in January 2016 to 5.14, a 77% improvement. Zavian has entered 67 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.15% of 284,439 all-time
5.14
signature single · NJIT Spring 2023
2,478
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.146.69
top 0.15%105 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed9.3513.32
top 0.67%104 / 15,683
2×21.222.43
top 1.1%461 / 40,951
Skewb2.384.47
top 2.5%364 / 18,907
4×429.7633.55
top 2.7%440 / 19,072
Pyraminx3.565.29
top 5.7%1,476 / 28,708
5×51:20.481:33.87
top 19.5%1,524 / 9,401
Clock9.3711.69
top 21.8%1,685 / 8,927
Megaminx1:24.561:28.66
top 24.7%1,701 / 7,841

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

Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 22.39Severna Park Spring 2016: 18.49Big Apple Spring 2016: 18.95Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 14.46Severna Park Fall 2016: 18.90TJHSST Fall 2016: 17.86Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 12.36River Hill Spring 2018: 11.75RVA Spring 2018: 10.47Rally In The Valley 2018: 11.21Pennsylvania 2018: 11.72Northern Neck Winter 2019: 9.48CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 10.64Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 8.91CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 10.02Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 7.70Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 7.77Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 8.74Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 7.92GA Cubers Return A 2021: 6.80Florida Returns 2021: 7.77Babylon Fall 2021: 6.83Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 7.31Bulldog Holiday Bash 2021: 7.03Florida Spring B 2022: 6.82Happy Valley Spring 2022: 6.49Princeton Spring 2022: 6.24River Hill Spring 2022: 6.39CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 6.31Dunkirk Spring A 2022: 6.53Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 5.83CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 7.38Silver Spring Summer 2022: 5.81St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 6.64Pretzel Mania 2022: 6.27Think In Fink Fall 2022: 6.54Naticube 2022: 6.60River Hill Fall 2022: 6.23West Chester Fall 2022: 6.57Pretzel Mania 2023: 6.25NJIT Spring 2023: 5.14Potomac Spring 2023: 5.56Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 6.92TJHSST Spring 2023: 6.64Clash at Carlisle Spring 2023: 6.30CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.28River Hill Fall 2023: 5.90Cardinal Cube Day 2024: 6.17Northampton Newcomers B 2024: 6.12South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 6.05L'Eliana Open 2024: 5.91Minnesota Warm Up 2024: 5.74Rubik's North America All-Stars 2024: 7.64Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 5.41Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 6.01High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 5.80CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 6.06M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 6.22Springfield Cube Day 2024: 6.14PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 6.36Summit Summer 2025: 5.86Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.29CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 5.94Rubik's x TheCubicle CubingUSA All-Stars 2025: 6.77PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 6.28Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.87Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 5.665.1422.3930 Jan 201614 Aug 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.