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Abishua James Thomas

2×2 · top 0.25% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2013 · 2013THOM03

Abishua James Thomas has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.82, set at London Winter B 2023, puts him in the top 0.25% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16th in Canada. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since May 2013, he has put 1,477 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.37 in January 2017 to 6.73, a 41% improvement. Abishua has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.25% of 186,767 all-time
0.82
signature single · London Winter B 2023
1,477
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
2×20.822.64
top 0.25%16 / 7,173
Skewb1.854.72
top 1.0%13 / 2,907
3×36.739.02
top 1.1%107 / 10,392
4×426.7231.91
top 1.3%27 / 3,118
Pyraminx2.383.86
top 1.9%73 / 4,858
5×554.081:00.12
top 3.1%33 / 1,499
3×3 one-handed12.3816.11
top 3.5%74 / 2,620
Megaminx46.3058.70
top 3.5%25 / 1,375
6×61:56.382:05.81
top 9.6%39 / 665
7×73:09.613:13.80
top 13.2%47 / 503
Square-121.7925.47
top 32.0%277 / 952
Clock14.7417.54
top 46.9%422 / 1,029

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

Emirates Open 2017: 11.37Sunmarke Dubai Open 2017: 9.76Sunmarke Dubai Open II 2017: 9.39Wellspring Open 2017: 9.72Cubing Kerala Cubezone Open 2018: 7.74Sunmarke Dubai Open 2018: 8.78Indian Nationals 2018: 9.06The Choice Cube Open 2018: 8.13Kew Forest Open 2018: 8.16GEMS Modern Academy Open 2018: 7.61Sharjah Open 2019: 8.25City Centre Sharjah Open 2019: 8.39Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 8.64Flower City Cube Fest 2022: 7.95CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 8.10Richmond Hill 2022: 7.92Ajax NxNxN 2022: 8.43Oakville Fall A 2022: 7.95Appleby Winter B 2023: 8.47London Winter B 2023: 10.92Pickering A 2023: 8.56Guelph 2023: 8.56Southern Ontario Summer - Waterloo 2023: 6.73Appleby Summer A 2023: 7.94Appleby Fall A 2023: 7.80Battle of Waterloo 2024: 7.73Kitchener Mini Afternoon 2024: 7.66Waterloo Winter 2025: 8.09Dubai American Academy Open 2025: 8.61DIA EH Cube for Change Dubai A 2026: 8.766.7311.3714 Jan 201731 Jan 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-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.