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Brandon Ervin

Pyraminx · top 0.89% of 129,321 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018ERVI01

Brandon Ervin has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.84, set at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.89% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 252nd in the United States. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 62 competitions since June 2018, he has put 1,975 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 40.07 in June 2018 to 9.38, a 77% improvement. Brandon has entered 62 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.89% of 129,321 all-time
1.84
signature single · CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025
1,975
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx1.843.07
top 0.89%252 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed12.1918.00
top 3.2%498 / 15,683
2×21.903.91
top 4.1%1,623 / 40,951
Skewb2.995.78
top 4.9%771 / 18,907
3×39.3810.98
top 5.8%3,217 / 59,724
Square-111.7820.78
top 9.4%668 / 6,743
Clock8.1610.80
top 16.0%1,218 / 8,927
4×445.0949.88
top 18.4%2,793 / 19,072
Megaminx1:19.711:29.63
top 21.6%1,488 / 7,841
5×51:30.431:37.47
top 27.7%2,171 / 9,401
6×63:29.193:57.65
top 54.3%2,050 / 4,196
7×76:21.216:28.71
top 72.5%2,243 / 3,184

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

New Hope Open Spring 2018: 40.07Princeton Fall 2018: 26.85Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 24.21Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 21.92New Hope Open Winter 2019: 21.26Princeton Winter 2019: 21.37CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 18.85Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 16.62Ridge Cubing 2019: 18.24Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 17.59George School Open 2019: 17.61Arcadia Summer 2019: 14.32Brooklyn Fall 2019: 15.10Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 12.08Princeton Winter 2020: 12.76Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 10.98St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 11.48Pretzel Mania 2022: 10.78West Chester Fall 2022: 12.03Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 12.38NJIT Spring 2023: 12.66South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 9.96GCU Spring 2023: 10.40North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023: 10.26Wilmington Warmup 2023: 12.95CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.68Newark's On Track 2023: 10.94GCU Winter 2024: 9.38Parsippany Mini AM 2024: 11.86Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 10.78South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 11.06Spring into Summit 2024: 10.07North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024: 10.84New Jersey Championship 2024: 11.28Newark Academy Spring 2024: 11.31Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 10.40Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.80Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 10.28Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 11.99Pop Off Princeton 2025: 13.03Rutgers Winter 2025: 10.23PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 10.91Liberty Science Center Open B 2025: 10.40King of Prussia Spring 2025: 10.99American Dream NJ 2025: 11.09Summit Summer 2025: 11.48Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.00Fort Lee Summer 2025: 9.65CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 9.85Christmas City Cubing PA 2025: 9.71Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 11.08Fort Lee Winter 2026: 10.87Lodi Solves Spring 2026: 9.92King of Prussia Spring 2026: 11.47Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 11.01RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026: 10.38Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 10.32King of Prussia Summer 2026: 9.59Mid-Atlantic Warm-Up 2026: 10.809.3840.0716 Jun 20189 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.

  • Shaun Mack — met in 297 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
  • Zach Ridall — met in 271 rounds, finished ahead 51 times
  • Livia Kleiner — met in 241 rounds, finished ahead twice

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.