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Zion Causey

3×3 one-handed · top 0.62% of 74,621 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022CAUS02

Zion Causey has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.23, set at Virginia Beach Fall 2025, puts him in the top 0.62% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 98th in the United States. Until November 2013, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since July 2022, he has put 594 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 57% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.35 in July 2022 to 7.34, a 41% improvement. Zion has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.62% of 74,621 all-time
9.23
signature single · Virginia Beach Fall 2025
594
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed9.2314.82
top 0.62%98 / 15,900
3×37.349.08
top 1.8%1,083 / 60,666
2×21.903.08
top 4.2%1,659 / 41,674
4×433.0636.88
top 5.1%792 / 19,354
Pyraminx4.006.11
top 7.7%2,001 / 29,168
5×51:03.931:09.27
top 7.9%623 / 9,537
Megaminx1:08.851:23.75
top 15.0%1,041 / 8,026
6×62:29.162:40.46
top 25.3%918 / 4,262
Skewb6.2011.90
top 27.4%4,519 / 19,164
Square-122.3432.35
top 33.3%2,180 / 6,846
7×74:33.844:48.99
early days — 3 solves1,233 / 3,236
Clock14.4217.81
top 45.5%3,765 / 9,172

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 Southeast Championship 2022: 12.35Virginia Beach Fall 2023: 12.96North Carolina Championship 2023: 10.99CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 10.61Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 8.60North Carolina Championship 2025: 9.40Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 8.53Virginia Championship 2025: 9.28ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 8.18Virginia Beach Fall 2025: 7.78NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 8.28Wrightsville Beach Bash 2026: 7.82NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026: 7.34Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026: 8.417.3412.9629 Jul 20222 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 one-handed single — 155 people have one; it is 1.23 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.