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Alex Hauben

2×2 · top 0.88% of 189,179 all-time · competing since July 2018 · 2018HAUB01

Alex Hauben has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.14, set at Westchester Weeknights 3 2023, puts him in the top 0.88% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 376th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 48 competitions since July 2018, he has put 1,012 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.96 in July 2018 to 7.53, a 42% improvement. Alex has entered 48 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.88% of 189,179 all-time
1.14
signature single · Westchester Weeknights 3 2023
1,012
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.143.16
top 0.88%376 / 41,674
3×37.5310.21
top 2.0%1,238 / 60,666
Skewb2.546.52
top 3.1%479 / 19,164
Megaminx50.7859.56
top 5.5%396 / 8,026
3×3 one-handed14.9419.27
top 8.1%1,093 / 15,900
Pyraminx4.137.83
top 8.4%2,179 / 29,168
3×3 blindfolded49.162:06.33
top 9.6%191 / 2,128
4×438.1841.43
top 10.1%1,520 / 19,354
5×51:19.921:28.16
top 19.2%1,516 / 9,537
Square-117.4424.44
top 22.0%1,469 / 6,846
6×62:45.422:51.29
top 33.7%1,225 / 4,262
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves43.33
top 41.0%893 / 2,059
7×74:52.685:02.81
top 48.6%1,435 / 3,236
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 10:24—
top 49.0%375 / 740
Clock16.4421.06
top 53.5%4,540 / 9,172
4×4 blindfolded9:46.13—
early days — 2 solves240 / 442
5×5 blindfolded23:58.00—
early days — 1 solve162 / 220

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

Brooklyn 2018: 12.96New York City Fall 2018: 13.68New Hope Open Winter 2019: 11.80SBU Spring 2019: 10.05CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.29Westchester Weeknights 4 2023: 10.46Manhattan Mini C 2023: 9.45Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 9.47North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024: 9.24Newark Academy Spring 2024: 8.57New Rochelle at Nite 5 2024: 8.53Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 9.97An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 10.12Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024: 9.70Flushing Open PM 2024: 8.02Flushing Glow Open AM 2025: 8.92Liberty Science Center Open B 2025: 7.53American Dream NJ 2025: 8.70Summit Summer 2025: 9.27Liberty Science Center Fall B 2025: 9.37Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 9.64Liberty Science Center Open B 2026: 11.60NYU Spring 2026: 10.12Great Peconic Bay 2026: 10.55Late in Larchmont 2026: 9.16Late in Larchmont II 2026: 10.147.5313.688 Jul 20185 Oct 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 139 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Eli Rogers — met in 137 rounds, finished ahead 50 times
  • Parker Trager — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 8 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.