2025 End of Year Accomplishments and 2026 Next Year Goals (Looking back and forward)

[OtaMota]

Last Years (2024 Review 2025 Goals): https://www.speedsolving.com/thread...complishments-and-2025-next-year-goals.93856/

We are halfway through December, and some apps already started on their year in reviews, so its about time to do it here.

Please share the biggest accomplishments this year, whether they are your own personal ones, or for the community at large. After that, please also share what your goals are for 2026 are, whether they are personal or for the community at large. I will write mine momentarily.

 

[SpeedCubingLord]

Sub 4 3x3 average!!! We broke the sub 4 barrier!

I just wanr to be sub 10 in 2026 bro

 

[Cubinginatree]

I haven’t entirely quit cubing.
I didn’t make state in XC.
Comp Saturday sub 10 officially maybe??

 

[Bingus cuber]

I don't really have many accomplishments from this year. I kept my PR streak alive, got better at most events, and had some good results.

Goals: Sub 5 official Pyra average
Sub 10 3x3 global
Get better at blind
Get SR in something(by far the hardest on this list[don't believe me look at Iowa SR page])
Sub 15 2 mile run

Holy cow I was coping last year.
Only achieved the last one.


Goals for 2026:
Learn blind
Sub 10 3x3 global?
Sub 5 skewb?
Get better at running
Keep PR streak
Just overall get better at cubing
Stay alive

 

[Cubist-Guitar]

Survived moving cross-country, sub 52 megaminx average are my best accomplisments

Goals: Get official podiuming-level good at more than just megaminx (and also get really good at megaminx)

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

copy pasted from the krca discord server

3: idk sub 7 ?
4: sub 33
5: sub 1
6: be able to complete two solves in a row without feeling the urge to solve 7x7 instead
7: sub 3:20
clock: flip ocr + do like 10k solves (currently at 4k solves in my lifetime)
try to remember not to touch anything else

 

[L4NC3_D4_AS14N]

biggest accomploshment: multiple unofficial sub 12s and even some sub 10s, learned all WCA puzzles, including mirror blocks, FTO, and CTO.
goal: get a sub 7 mini guildford, learning 3BLD rn, hoping to finally get a success (wish me luck), try to get better at side events such as squan, pyra, mega, and skweb

 

[gsingh]

Last Years (2024 Review 2025 Goals): https://www.speedsolving.com/thread...complishments-and-2025-next-year-goals.93856/

We are halfway through December, and some apps already started on their year in reviews, so its about time to do it here.

Please share the biggest accomplishments this year, whether they are your own personal ones, or for the community at large. After that, please also share what your goals are for 2026 are, whether they are personal or for the community at large. I will write mine momentarily.

Got sub 7 officially on 3x3 and sub 30 on 4x4
Both of these were really early into the year and I wasn't able to improve much after that
Sub 6 and 25 next year pls (625)

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

Spoiler: my accomplishment this year

my accomplishments this year:
3x3: Sub-8 and sub-7 globals!
sub-5 single
sub-6 average
2 3x3 podiums
sub-8 average officially
2x2:
sub-2.4 global
learning EG-1
getting 5th place in a national championship
sub-0.7 single (at home)
getting 2nd in a comp
other:
creating my own 4x4 method which gets surprisingly positive feedback
fumbling 2 2x2 wins
tossing my cube over my head officially because why not
missing philchamps 2025 finals
getting sub-5 average on skewb
becoming friends with neo cuares and leo borromeo (jk we aren’t friends we just talked about things)
learning APB and getting like sub-12

meanwhile the biggest accomplishments for cubing this year were:
sub-4 3x3 average
sub-19 4x4 average
sub-8 OH average

my goals for 2026:
sub-6.65 on 3x3
sub-1.5 on 2x2
sub-40 on 4x4 (new method)
sub-12 on OH (APB)
sub-4 global on skewb
win 2x2 in a comp
make it to philchamps 2026 3x3 finals
podium in 2x2 at philchamps 2026
learn 3BLD
and the most ambitious of all… winning 3x3 at a competition (only works if Leo becomes washed again)

 

[VortexCuber]

I improved in 3x3 tremendously, averaging in the low 30s at the beginning of the year and dropping that average to sub-20 by now. I also went to my first competition.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

this year was the year of simulators for me.

I built a fully functional Maple Leaf Simulator and a 3x3x3 customizable Picture Cube Simulator with head tracking support and bluetooth giiker cube support and modifier keys for rotations to work with non gyroscopic smart cubes. I also developed a new touch interface for 3x3x3 simulator and found it better than other solutions we have out there.

For next year I want to keep exploring new ideas and contributing to open source projects in github and help fixing bugs and help implementing new features.

MAYBE I'll dive deepper into hyperspeedcubing, blindfolding and FMC

 

[Michael Wimberly]

My biggest accomplishment was, of course, learning how to solve a cube and getting into the world of speedcubing. Since I learned how to solve a rubik's cube, my average time started at around 3 minutes and by now has dropped to a mere 25 seconds, and I am very proud of that accomplishment. And I would like to thank every one of you guys for always being so supportive.

For next year, I want to get my average time to sub-20 or maybe even 15 seconds by the end of the year. I would also like to learn a few more events, and skewb, clock, and 5x5 are next up on my list right now. I also want to make another cubing method, because I find it very enjoyable.

 

[Martyt7777]

2025 accomplishments:

Got to 2nd round in Australian Nats 2025
Went from averaging (I think) low 30 to 13 second average

2026 goals:

Averaging Sub-7 3x3
Make it to finals in a comp
Success in 3BLD

 

[ILCubing]

2025 accomplishments:
+2ing out of 2x2 heartlands finals lock tf in lil bro
not that big of an accomplishment but fastest newcomer at my first comp
getting into basketball ( i suck)
surviving a whole game
making cutoff every single time in 4x4, mega, 5x5 and clock
learning 7simul
becoming the most mid all rounder in history
being recognized as the "kid from the last layer video" at pyraminx in pewaukee 2025

Spoiler: for context

going from averaging 23 on 3x3 at the beginning of the year to sub 14 official average (terrible for me)
going from averaging 6-7 to sub 4 on 2x2

2026 goals
making heartlands finals in clock or 2x2 would be cool
get better hardware in everything but 3x3 and 2x2
sub 10 3x3 global bro you are not getting that
sub 3 2x2 global
sub 5 clock global
idk what else to put here, maybe start a yt channel or something

 

[Cubing342]

Goals for 2026 be sub 5 on clock and solve 7x7 in 2:30

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

2025 accomplishments:

Got to 2nd round in Australian Nats 2025
Went from averaging (I think) low 30 to 13 second average

2026 goals:

Averaging Sub-7 3x3
Success in 3BLD

dang good luck