People · United States
Ari Strumfeld
2×2 · top 22.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2025 · 2025STRU02
Ari Strumfeld has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.67, set at UMBC Fall 2025, puts him in the top 22.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,750th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since September 2025, he has put 49 official solves on the record across five events. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.70 in September 2025 to 22.04, a 14% improvement. Ari has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% 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 | 3.67 | 6.08 | top 22.3% | 8,750 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 22.04 | 25.49 | top 45.5% | 26,266 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 9.44 | 14.85 | top 51.4% | 9,224 / 18,907 | |
| Pyraminx | 11.01 | 15.12 | top 60.6% | 17,824 / 28,708 | |
| 4×4 | 1:36.00 | — | early days — 2 solves | 12,068 / 19,072 |
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
- 20 Sep 2025First competition: NxNything Goes Bloomsburg 2025. A 25.70 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Penn Cube Day Fall 2025 · 2 Nov 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- UMBC Fall 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Christmas City Cubing PA 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- NxNything Goes Bloomsburg 2025 · 20 Sep 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.
- Nico Ozsvath — met in 11 rounds, finished ahead once
- Livia Kleiner — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead
- Alex Hamburg — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
- A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 2.04 away.
Targets move as he improves.