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Connor Gaeckle

2×2 · top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022GAEC01

Connor Gaeckle has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.29, set at Christmas City Cubing PA 2024, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 553rd in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since October 2022, he has put 1,139 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.96 in October 2022 to 7.16, a 55% improvement. Connor has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time
1.29
signature single · Christmas City Cubing PA 2024
1,139
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.292.81
top 1.3%553 / 40,951
3×37.168.73
top 1.5%914 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.044.56
top 3.8%1,000 / 28,708
Megaminx48.4853.14
top 4.4%311 / 7,841
4×433.3841.25
top 5.3%813 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed14.0619.76
top 6.2%858 / 15,683
Skewb3.695.97
top 8.9%1,364 / 18,907
Clock6.959.08
top 10.7%831 / 8,927
5×51:20.131:35.66
top 19.2%1,503 / 9,401
Square-119.8330.87
top 27.7%1,820 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves—
early days — 2 solves738 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded2:45.10—
early days — 3 solves1,032 / 2,092
6×63:20.203:38.53
top 50.7%1,902 / 4,196
7×76:41.217:49.99
top 76.7%2,388 / 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

Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 15.96Pretzel Mania 2023: 11.52NJIT Spring 2023: 11.99Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 10.71South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 13.09Clash at Carlisle Spring 2023: 11.61CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.70Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 10.17Virginia Championship 2023: 9.92GCU Winter 2024: 8.49Parsippany Mini AM 2024: 9.80NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 7.16Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 9.31South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 10.98New Jersey Championship 2024: 8.19Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 8.80High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 9.66Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 9.34Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 8.43PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 9.21PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 8.41King of Prussia Spring 2025: 8.39UMBC Spring 2025: 8.34Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.53CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.29Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 8.24River Hill Fall 2025: 7.67Cape May Summer A 2026: 8.527.1615.9629 Oct 202220 Jun 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 0.29 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.