People · Canada
Brendan Man
3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022MANB01
Brendan Man has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.91, set at Waterloo Fall 2025, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 444th in Canada. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since October 2022, he has put 250 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.16 in October 2022 to 8.91, a 56% improvement. Brendan has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.91 | 10.68 | top 4.7% | 444 / 10,392 | |
| 2×2 | 2.99 | 5.12 | top 14.1% | 947 / 7,173 | |
| Skewb | 4.86 | 8.59 | top 17.1% | 381 / 2,907 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.84 | 8.44 | top 26.5% | 1,134 / 4,858 | |
| 4×4 | 1:02.22 | 1:09.09 | top 38.9% | 1,046 / 3,118 | |
| Clock | 18.42 | 23.95 | top 60.0% | 559 / 1,029 |
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 Jan 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.70 at Waterloo Winter 2025.
- 25 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Waterloo Winter 2025.
- 16 Dec 2023Three personal bests in one day at Waterloo Favourites Autumn 2023.
- 24 Jun 2023First sub-15 3×3: 14.07 at Southern Ontario Summer - Waterloo 2023.
- 19 Feb 2023First sub-20 3×3: 15.77 at Waterloo Favourites B 2023.
- 30 Oct 2022First competition: Ajax First-Timers 2022. A 22.44 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Waterloo Fall 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Brantford Fall 2025 · 13 Sep 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering Favourites Spring 2025 · 3 May 2025
- Waterloo Winter 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Wrap It Up Barrie 2024 · 28 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Kitchener Mini Morning 2024 · 19 Oct 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Appleby Summer 2024 · 6 Jul 2024
- Waterloo Favourites Autumn 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Waterloo Favourites Fall 2023 · 1 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Sherwood Park Summer 2023 · 22 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Canadian Championship 2023 · 13 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Southern Ontario Summer - Waterloo 2023 · 24 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pickering D 2023 · 26 Mar 2023
- Waterloo Favourites B 2023 · 19 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Ajax First-Timers 2022 · 30 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Tin Huang — met in 38 rounds, finished ahead once
- Nicholas Patterson — met in 24 rounds, never finished ahead
- Morgan Yeh — met in 24 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
Targets move as he improves.