People · United States
Alistair Schardl
2×2 · top 5.7% of 189,179 all-time · competing since August 2025 · 2025SCHA05
Alistair Schardl has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.13, set at Quabbin Spring 2026, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,307th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since August 2025, he has put 234 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.44 in September 2025 to 18.54, a 27% improvement. Alistair has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.13 | 4.43 | top 5.7% | 2,307 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.98 | 6.45 | top 7.6% | 1,973 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 | 18.54 | 22.19 | top 35.9% | 20,385 / 60,666 | |
| Megaminx | 2:44.00 | — | early days — 3 solves | 5,342 / 8,026 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 13 Jun 2026First sub-20 3×3: 19.65 at Saint John's Summer 2026.
- 13 Jun 2026Three personal bests in one day at Saint John's Summer 2026.
- 1 Aug 2025First competition: CubingUSA New England Championship 2025.
Competitions
- Wellesley Fall 2026 · 19 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Brookline Favorites IV 2026 · 29 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Woonsocket Cubikon 2026 · 16 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Saint John's Summer 2026 · 13 Jun 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Quabbin Spring 2026 · 23 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- WPI Spring 2026 · 2 May 2026
- Fitchburg Spring 2026 · 25 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Wakefield MA Spring 2026 · 4 Apr 2026
- Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026 · 21 Mar 2026
- UMass Spring 2026 · 28 Feb 2026
- Brown Cubing Day 2026 · 21 Feb 2026
- Berkshires Cube Day at BART 2026 · 24 Jan 2026
- Ipswich Fall 2025 · 13 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- New Hampshire Championship 2025 · 22 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2025 · 19 Oct 2025
- Westport Fall 2025 · 4 Oct 2025
- Ocean State Cubikon 2025 · 28 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Fitchburg Fall 2025 · 20 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2025 · 1 Aug 2025
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.
- Geordie Hine — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead once
- Derek White — met in 39 rounds, never finished ahead
- Syed Mekaeel Ghani — met in 32 rounds, finished ahead 18 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
Targets move as he improves.