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Caden Purdon

2×2 · top 5.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019PURD01

Caden Purdon has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.05, set at Canadian Prairie Championship 2024, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 310th in Canada. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since March 2019, he has put 721 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.12 in March 2019 to 9.63, a 64% improvement. Caden has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 5.1% of 186,767 all-time
2.05
signature single · Canadian Prairie Championship 2024
721
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
2×22.054.15
top 5.1%310 / 7,173
3×39.6313.16
top 6.4%614 / 10,392
Pyraminx5.048.86
top 13.4%518 / 4,858
Megaminx1:11.731:35.77
top 16.7%145 / 1,375
4×446.6154.26
top 20.3%512 / 3,118
Skewb6.059.56
top 26.1%630 / 2,907
5×51:29.951:43.48
top 27.3%329 / 1,499
3×3 one-handed25.0729.98
top 34.4%762 / 2,620
6×63:10.043:22.61
top 45.7%240 / 665
Square-132.0939.38
top 53.4%477 / 952
7×75:23.935:51.54
top 57.9%239 / 503
Clock18.7620.62
top 61.1%573 / 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

3x3 Only Calgary 2019: 27.12Foothills Final Fight 2019: 25.44Sherwood Park Summer 2019: 18.18Strathcona 2019: 17.15Solved Central Alberta 2019: 13.67Alberta 5th Anniversary 2020: 15.67Sherwood Park Spring 2022: 14.80Welcome Back Calgary 2023: 14.68Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2023: 13.98Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2023: 14.80Solved Central Alberta 2023: 11.56Sherwood Park Summer 2023: 14.08Foothills NxNs 2023: 15.04Afraid in Airdrie 2023: 13.36Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2024: 16.35Battle of Alberta 2024: 12.12Mother Earth's Charter Spring 2024: 10.89Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2024: 12.24Solved Central Alberta 2024: 12.48Airdrie NxNs 2024: 12.32Canadian Prairie Championship 2024: 9.63Alberta 10th Anniversary 2025: 11.62Solved Central Alberta 2025: 11.639.6327.129 Mar 201927 Sep 2025

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.