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Austin Reed

2×2 · top 0.047% of 186,767 all-time · competing since February 2011 · 2011REED01

Austin Reed has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.61, set at Westchester Weeknights 3 2023, puts him in the top 0.047% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in the United States. Until June 2015, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 83 competitions since February 2011, he has put 3,103 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.25 in February 2011 to 6.67, a 56% improvement. Austin has entered 83 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.047% of 186,767 all-time
0.61
signature single · Westchester Weeknights 3 2023
3,103
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.612.19
top 0.047%15 / 40,951
3×36.678.34
top 1.0%633 / 59,724
4×427.3030.87
top 1.5%255 / 19,072
5×551.9059.14
top 2.3%182 / 9,401
Pyraminx2.554.67
top 2.3%617 / 28,708
Megaminx43.2650.16
top 2.5%181 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves26.67
top 4.0%103 / 2,040
6×61:42.071:55.61
top 4.6%157 / 4,196
3×3 one-handed13.1217.61
top 4.6%665 / 15,683
Square-110.5813.35
top 7.1%520 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded43.061:02.28
top 7.7%151 / 2,092
7×72:50.182:59.14
top 8.0%210 / 3,184
Skewb3.675.76
top 8.8%1,347 / 18,907
Clock7.077.63
top 11.2%860 / 8,927
4×4 blindfolded5:44.88—
top 27.1%111 / 440
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 10 cubes · 53:56—
top 34.0%255 / 731
5×5 blindfolded14:31.00—
top 39.5%83 / 218

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

Caltech Winter 2011: 15.25San Diego 2011: 12.97Arizona Open 2011: 11.88United States National Championships 2011: 10.63Caltech Fall 2011: 13.40Arizona Showdown 2011: 11.22United States National Championships 2012: 9.21Arizona Winter 2012: 9.63Diamond Bar Spring Open 2013: 9.80World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 9.35Southwest Showdown 2013: 9.78Bay Area Speedcubin' 2 2014: 9.60SoCal Supercomp 2015: 9.38AZCubing Fall 2015: 8.96AZCubing Winter 2016: 8.75AZCubing Summer 2016: 7.36AZCubing Summer 2017: 8.90Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2022: 8.35NJIT Spring 2023: 7.28Empire State Spring 2023: 7.59CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 7.80Westchester Weeknights 4 2023: 9.12CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.38Newark's On Track 2023: 7.64Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 7.98Wakefield Autumn 2023: 7.35Rubik's UK Championship 2023: 7.41Manhattan Mini C 2023: 8.19New York New Year 2024: 7.75Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 8.19Parsippany Mini PM 2024: 7.53NYU Winter 2024: 7.56Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 8.18Edgemont Cubing 2024: 6.67Great Peconic Bay Spring 2024: 7.13Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 7.82New Rochelle at Nite 5 2024: 8.13Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 7.23Flushing Open PM 2024: 8.15Flushing Glow PM 2024: 7.28Flushing Glow Open AM 2025: 7.50Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 7.35NYU Spring 2025: 7.79Championnat Canadien 2025: 6.91Flushing Glow Autumn AM 2025: 8.09Wiltshire Winter 2025: 8.20Arizona Championship 2026: 8.07Liberty Science Center Open B 2026: 8.28NYU Spring 2026: 7.40No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026: 7.856.6715.2512 Feb 20119 May 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 268 rounds, finished ahead 86 times
  • Ayden Dincher — met in 194 rounds, finished ahead 47 times
  • Parker Trager — met in 153 rounds, finished ahead 32 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 2.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.