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Brenden McCracken

2×2 · top 3.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025MCCR01

Brenden McCracken has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.69, set at Preble Spring 2025, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,178th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since January 2025, he has put 633 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.95 in January 2025 to 11.39, a 43% improvement. Brenden has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.0% of 186,767 all-time
1.69
signature single · Preble Spring 2025
633
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.693.91
top 3.0%1,178 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.315.51
top 9.2%2,391 / 28,708
3×311.3915.72
top 11.8%6,324 / 59,724
Clock7.268.71
top 12.0%910 / 8,927
Skewb5.687.03
top 23.3%3,740 / 18,907
4×453.891:02.80
top 29.4%4,597 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves—
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
Megaminx1:45.311:52.21
top 37.7%2,713 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed26.6035.41
top 38.3%5,094 / 15,683
5×52:06.572:30.69
top 53.4%4,497 / 9,401
Square-136.8149.25
top 61.0%4,021 / 6,743
6×65:31.116:43.43
early days — 3 solves3,571 / 4,196

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

Imagination Station A 2025: 19.95Cincinnati Speed Solving 2025: 14.29Bowling Green 2025: 13.94Preble Spring 2025: 13.55Carmen Cube Clash Ohio State 2025: 17.67Many Cubes in Mansfield 2025: 13.91Plymouth Puzzle-Off 2025: 14.95Michigan Championship 2025: 12.26Michigan Mini 34 2025: 13.30Washtenaw Slow Fall 2025: 13.56Clock & 'Minx Ohio 2025: 14.40Bowling Green Fall 2025: 12.15Michigan Mini 38 2025: 13.05Ohio Championship 2025: 11.39Imagination Station B 2026: 13.57Cincinnati Speedsolving 2026: 15.1011.3919.954 Jan 202521 Feb 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.