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Adam McLaughlin

2×2 · top 1.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2023 · 2023MCLA02

Adam McLaughlin has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.43, set at Puzzles in Pottsville 2025, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 734th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since June 2023, he has put 864 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.37 in June 2023 to 7.49, a 63% improvement. Adam has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.9% of 186,767 all-time
1.43
signature single · Puzzles in Pottsville 2025
864
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.432.82
top 1.9%734 / 40,951
3×37.499.00
top 2.0%1,166 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.784.51
top 2.9%785 / 28,708
4×430.4534.39
top 3.1%506 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed14.0818.35
top 6.3%865 / 15,683
5×51:05.791:19.13
top 8.9%693 / 9,401
Clock6.458.31
top 8.9%696 / 8,927
Skewb3.716.21
top 9.0%1,384 / 18,907
Square-112.3215.18
top 10.5%738 / 6,743
Megaminx1:14.771:19.44
top 18.5%1,259 / 7,841
6×62:41.632:51.64
top 31.6%1,119 / 4,196
7×75:17.17—
early days — 2 solves1,653 / 3,184

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

Wilmington Warmup 2023: 20.37Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 16.37GCU Winter 2024: 11.21Parsippany Mini AM 2024: 17.71New Jersey Championship 2024: 14.21Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.15Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 9.92Cumberland County Fall 2024: 9.43Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 10.52Pop Off Princeton 2025: 10.74Puzzles in Pottsville 2025: 10.78New-Cumberland County 2025: 10.07Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.91Bucks County Cubing AM 2025: 11.42CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.59Fort Lee Winter 2026: 7.56PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 9.01Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 7.82New Providence Spring PM 2026: 8.16LCCC Cubing Summer 2026: 8.09Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.39King of Prussia Summer 2026: 7.49Mid-Atlantic Warm-Up 2026: 8.477.4920.373 Jun 20239 Aug 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 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.