People · United States
Ava Monello
7×7 · top 8.8% of 14,226 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016MONE01
Ava Monello has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 7×7: a personal-best single of 2:53.63, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts her in the top 8.8% of the 14,226 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 239th in the United States. Until September 2012, no official 7×7 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since April 2016, she has put 972 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.60 in April 2016 to 11.40, a 45% improvement. Ava has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7×7 | 2:53.63 | 2:56.72 | top 8.8% | 239 / 3,184 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.28 | 6.36 | top 9.1% | 2,358 / 28,708 | |
| 5×5 | 1:07.25 | 1:15.25 | top 9.8% | 766 / 9,401 | |
| Megaminx | 1:01.25 | 1:07.95 | top 10.7% | 727 / 7,841 | |
| 6×6 | 2:00.88 | 2:12.12 | top 11.3% | 404 / 4,196 | |
| 3×3 | 11.40 | 13.34 | top 11.8% | 6,343 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 42.65 | 46.85 | top 15.3% | 2,307 / 19,072 | |
| 2×2 | 3.40 | 4.77 | top 19.0% | 7,440 / 40,951 | |
| Skewb | 5.66 | 7.00 | top 23.2% | 3,710 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.30 | 27.99 | top 26.9% | 3,466 / 15,683 | |
| Clock | 11.16 | 12.35 | top 30.9% | 2,415 / 8,927 | |
| Square-1 | 33.36 | 35.03 | top 55.7% | 3,679 / 6,743 |
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
- 25 May 2024Five personal bests in one day at New Jersey Championship 2024.
- 31 Dec 2022Four personal bests in one day at New York New Year 2023.
- 12 Oct 2019Three personal bests in one day at Empire State Fall 2019.
- 22 Sep 2018Three personal bests in one day at Kew Forest Open 2018.
- 16 Dec 2017First sub-15 3×3: 14.88 at Liberty Science Center Open 2017.
- 16 Dec 2017Four personal bests in one day at Liberty Science Center Open 2017.
Competitions
- Dobbs Ferry Triple-Double 2026 · 2 Sep 2026
- Manhattan Mini PM 2026 · 22 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026
- Side Events in Palisades 2026 · 5 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024 · 12 Oct 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Hudson Valley Summer 2024 · 8 Sep 2024
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024
- New Jersey Championship 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- New York New Year 2023 · 31 Dec 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- New York Yopen 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2019 · 14 Dec 2019
- SBU Fall 2019 · 23 Nov 2019
- Empire State Fall 2019 · 12 Oct 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Ridge Cubing Fall 2019 · 14 Sep 2019 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2019 · 1 Aug 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Massachusetts Championship 2019 · 26 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Hudson Valley Summer 2019 · 13 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Brooklyn 2019 · 25 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Empire State Spring 2019 · 20 Apr 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2018 · 8 Dec 2018
- New York City Fall 2018 · 21 Oct 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Kew Forest Open 2018 · 22 Sep 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2018 · 27 Jul 2018 — 1 personal best set
- New York City Spring 2018 · 21 Apr 2018
- Incredible Pencil Mania 2018 · 10 Feb 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2017 · 16 Dec 2017 — 4 personal bests set
- Princeton Fall 2017 · 23 Sep 2017 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2017 · 7 Jul 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Hudson Valley Open Fall 2016 · 19 Nov 2016 — 1 personal best set
- New York City Summer 2016 · 10 Sep 2016
- Lexington Summer 2016 · 25 Jun 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Big Apple Spring 2016 · 21 May 2016 — 1 personal best set
- MIT Spring 2016 · 30 Apr 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Manhasset Spring 2016 · 16 Apr 2016
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 her.
- Chris Chi — met in 148 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
- Kymberlyn Calderon — met in 123 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Krish Shah-Nathwani — met in 114 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-2:00 7×7 single — 83 people have one; it is 53.63 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
Targets move as she improves.