Teodor Zajder tops WCA 3x3 rankings as elite times tighten
Teodor Zajder’s 2.76 world-record single sits on top of a brutally tight WCA 3x3 leaderboard, with Xuanyi Geng, Yiheng Wang and Max Park packed right behind him.
The elite end of WCA 3x3 has turned into a knife fight. Teodor Zajder sat first on the 3x3 single rankings after the June 16 update with a 2.76-second solve, while Xuanyi Geng followed at 2.80, Yiheng Wang was third at 3.06 and Max Park fourth at 3.13. That is the whole story in one glance: the gap from first to fourth was only a few tenths, and the rest of the visible top tier was crowded into the same low-3 range.
That tight spread matters because the rankings page is not a frozen record book. The page said it was last updated Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM PDT, and it also noted that some filters, including past years, were temporarily disabled while the Software Team worked to restore them. Paired with the WCA live-results system, which runs competitions and pushes results to the world, the page functions like a running scoreboard for the sport’s sharpest edge rather than a once-a-season table. The WCA results export page says exports are usually updated after each competition weekend once results are finalized, so one strong meet can change the shape of the list fast.
Zajder’s lead is not a fluke. His person page lists 2.76 as his current 3x3x3 Cube personal record, and the GLS Big Cubes Gdańsk 2026 results page identifies that same 2.76 as a world record in the competition highlights. He has also been stacking recent results in Poland: at GLS Gdańsk III 2026, he won 3x3x3 Cube with a 4.41 average, which the WCA marked as a European record, and at GLS Big Cubes Gdańsk 2026 he won the event with a 5.15 average. That is the kind of form that puts pressure on everyone else in the top four, because it shows the top ranking is being held by sustained speed, not one lucky single.
The larger takeaway is that the leaderboard is being squeezed by depth and by schedule. Zajder’s record-setting 2.76 sits at the top right now, but the current compression means one clean weekend from Geng, Wang or Park could redraw the order quickly. With Quanzhou FMC Summer 2026 set for June 20, the next wave of results may arrive almost immediately. That is why this rankings page matters so much right now: it shows a field where the margin is tiny, the names are familiar, and the next standout meet could flip the picture again.
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