People · United States
Brody Higaki
3×3 · top 3.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2025 · 2025HIGA03
Brody Higaki has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.36, set at Hawaii Championship 2026, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,995th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since July 2025, he has put 179 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 2.17 in July 2025 to 1.90, a 12% improvement. Brody has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.36 | 12.18 | top 3.5% | 1,995 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 1.90 | 3.70 | top 4.2% | 1,659 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.43 | 7.63 | top 9.9% | 2,602 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 18.97 | 26.70 | top 17.8% | 2,324 / 15,900 | |
| 4×4 | 1:06.64 | 1:14.68 | top 43.7% | 7,304 / 19,354 |
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, 2×2. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 24 Jul 2026First sub-10 3×3: 8.36 at Hawaii Championship 2026.
- 16 Jul 2025First competition: Hawaiian Island Tour - Honolulu 2025. A 12.65 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Hawaii Championship 2026 · 24 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- ʻEwa Beach Liʻi Malaki 2026 · 28 Mar 2026
- Hawaiʻi Big Island Winter 2026 · 28 Feb 2026
- Honolulu Hoʻoilo 2026 · 24 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- ʻAiea Liʻi ʻOkakopa 2025 · 26 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Honolulu Hāʻulelau 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Hawaiian Island Tour - Honolulu 2025 · 16 Jul 2025 — 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.
- Chris Martin — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
- Enzo Xuan — met in 29 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Theo Masahiro Hirano — met in 29 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.90 away.
Targets move as he improves.