Competitions · United States

The Battle of Lexington 2025

Lexington, Massachusetts · 11 January 2025 · 6 events · 88 competitors · 74 personal bests

Joshua Broderick Phillips won two of the six events (3×3, 2×2) and the closest final was the 2×2, won by Joshua Broderick Phillips by 0.37 seconds. 88 competitors produced 74 personal bests, 37 of which still stand today, and 13 people held a competitor card for the first time.

The moment

The day's biggest improvement

Ali Larhrib took a 2×2 single of 32.56 down to 4.73, 85 percent better in one day.

Two wins

Joshua Broderick Phillips — 3×3, 2×2

0.37s

closest final — 2×2, Joshua Broderick Phillips over Levi Gibson

personal bests set on the day

Winners & podiums

Event	Winner	Single	Average
3×3	Joshua Broderick Phillips	7.50	7.72
2×2	Joshua Broderick Phillips	1.61	1.95
Clock	Brendan Lee	3.62	4.17
Pyraminx	David Andron-Silva	1.79	2.19
Skewb	Saisabari Ramesh	2.08	2.77
Square-1	Levi Gibson	8.08	10.82

The PB harvest

74 set · 37 still standing

Brendan Lee — Skewb single 1.94: into the top 1.2% of the event's history.
Brendan Lee — 2×2 single 1.43: into the top 1.9% of the event's history.
Matthew Jalkut — 2×2 single 1.96: into the top 4.5% of the event's history.
Bennett David Walsh — 3×3 single 9.27: into the top 5.5% of the event's history.
Bennett David Walsh — 2×2 single 2.21: into the top 6.3% of the event's history.
William Su — Clock single 5.84: into the top 6.7% of the event's history.
Olivia Faith Kim — Pyraminx single 4.34: into the top 9.4% of the event's history.
Liam Corcoran — Clock single 7.51: into the top 13.0% of the event's history.

First-timers

13 people competed for the first time at this competition, joining the 28,483 people who made their debut in 2025. Start here explains what a first competition is like.

Records watch

No national, continental or world records were set at this competition. That is true of most competitions.

The field

88 competitors · 441 results · 6 events.

Solve this final yourself

how this works →

The 3×3 final here ran on one scramble group, so these five sequences are exactly what the finalists faced. Joshua Broderick Phillips won it with a 7.72 average. Hold your cube white centre up, green centre facing you, follow each sequence, and check against the pictures.

1U L2 F' U B2 L2 U' L2 D F2 D' U B D L' F2 R B' L2 U
2L2 F2 R2 F2 L' U2 L B' R' B2 R' D' U' R D2 F2 U L'
3U2 R' D2 L2 F U2 R2 B2 R2 B' U B D2 B D2 U' L2 B
4F U' B' R' L U L D F' B2 U2 L2 F B2 U2 R2 U2 L' D
5L' F2 D2 L' D2 U2 L2 B2 R2 F L' B2 L R2 U' L' R B2 F' U

solve 1

solve 2

solve 3

solve 4

solve 5

Race this final

Everyone who competed

88 competitors

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 final is a competition's last round; its order decides the podium · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · every solve starts from a computer-generated scramble, the same for every competitor in a round.