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Alexander Gager

2×2 · top 0.17% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017GAGE01

Alexander Gager has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.75, set at Missouri Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 71st in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since November 2017, he has put 1,171 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.35 in November 2017 to 6.04, a 67% improvement. Alexander has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.17% of 186,767 all-time
0.75
signature single · Missouri Championship 2026
1,171
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.751.83
top 0.17%71 / 40,951
Megaminx31.7336.95
top 0.36%27 / 7,841
3×36.046.97
top 0.51%342 / 59,724
Skewb1.953.88
top 1.3%194 / 18,907
Pyraminx2.545.17
top 2.3%606 / 28,708
5×551.9459.65
top 2.3%184 / 9,401
4×429.4634.00
top 2.5%412 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed11.7814.69
top 2.7%430 / 15,683
6×61:44.411:52.98
top 5.3%180 / 4,196
Clock5.507.34
top 5.7%443 / 8,927
7×72:54.752:56.01
top 9.1%253 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded4:05.59—
early days — 1 solve1,442 / 2,092

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

KCubing Fall 2017: 18.35Gateway Ravioli Spring 2018: 12.21BarbeCubing Fall 2018: 11.13Cube More in Ardmore 2022: 8.64Cube Even More in Wichita 2022: 9.28Springfield Winter Open 2023: 7.49Nebraska Heartland Warmup 2023: 8.47CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 7.97CoMO Cubing Winter 2024: 6.37K-State Cubing Spring 2024: 7.68Kansas Championship 2024: 7.61KCKC 5 Fast and Furious 2024: 6.58Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025: 7.02Wichita Art Museum 2025: 6.80Kansas City Side Events 2025: 7.73Cubing in Cave Springs Arkansas 2025: 7.03Doing Time in Leavenworth 2025: 6.86Kansas Championship 2025: 6.40NxNebraska 2025: 6.50COMO Cube-Off 2026: 7.427x7 Off I-70 MO 2026: 6.04Missouri Championship 2026: 6.916.0418.354 Nov 20177 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-30 Megaminx single — 75 people have one; it is 1.73 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.