Ratings

Your rating is one number that says how fast you are against everyone else solving the same way. It’s Elo-style: you gain when you beat the expectation and lose when you fall short, so it settles where you actually belong.

One rating per event

Each event carries its own rating — a 3x3 rating doesn’t borrow from any other. One-handed is a separate track, so an OH result never moves your two-handed number and the two never mix. Climb the event you’re racing.

Placement

Your first 12 rated solves are placement. During placement the rating swings widely as it finds your level; once placement is done it settles and each rated solve nudges it a smaller amount. You don’t have to do anything special — just race, and the placement period completes itself.

What counts as rated

A solve is rated when it happens in a competitive context: league matchdays, head-to-head races, brackets, battle royale, and tournaments. Practice solves in the timer are yours alone and never touch your rating. Some formats are unrated on purpose — see the formats guide for which.

No decay in Season 1

There is no inactivity decay in Season 1. Take a week off and your rating is exactly where you left it. Leagues have their own grace rule for missed weeks — that’s covered in weekly leagues — but your rating number itself never erodes just for being away.