People · United States
Donovan Ho
3×3 one-handed · top 0.16% of 74,621 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015HODO01
Donovan Ho has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 7.74, set at Seattle Summer 2026, puts him in the top 0.16% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 24th in the United States. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since September 2015, he has put 610 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 80% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.80 in September 2015 to 6.75, a 74% improvement. Donovan has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% 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 one-handed | 7.74 | 12.12 | top 0.16% | 24 / 15,900 | |
| 3×3 | 6.75 | 9.12 | top 1.1% | 686 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 1.45 | 2.40 | top 2.0% | 797 / 41,674 | |
| Clock | 6.80 | 8.56 | top 10.2% | 808 / 9,172 | |
| Square-1 | 12.55 | 18.40 | top 11.0% | 779 / 6,846 | |
| 4×4 | 39.80 | 44.99 | top 12.0% | 1,794 / 19,354 | |
| Skewb | 4.45 | 5.44 | top 14.2% | 2,228 / 19,164 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.21 | 7.06 | top 21.6% | 5,881 / 29,168 | |
| 5×5 | 1:25.95 | 1:29.04 | top 24.2% | 1,903 / 9,537 | |
| Megaminx | 1:54.34 | 2:20.14 | top 42.9% | 3,200 / 8,026 |
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
- 4 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at North Sound Spring 2026.
- 20 Dec 2025Three personal bests in one day at Portland in a Pyra Tree 2025.
- 2 Dec 2017First sub-10 3×3: 9.74 at Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017.
- 11 Aug 2017Three personal bests in one day at Northwest Championships 2017.
- 15 Oct 2016First sub-15 3×3: 13.89 at Puget Sound Fall 2016.
- 15 Oct 2016Three personal bests in one day at Puget Sound Fall 2016.
Competitions
- Tacoma Fall 2026 · 10 Oct 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Central Washington Fall 2026 · 26 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Northwest Championship 2026 · 21 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Summer Scramble UW 2026 · 15 Aug 2026
- Seattle Summer 2026 · 11 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Kent Spring 2026 · 30 May 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Lakewood Spring 2026 · 18 Apr 2026
- Tri Cities Spring 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- North Sound Spring 2026 · 4 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Portland in a Pyra Tree 2025 · 20 Dec 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017 · 2 Dec 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Northwest Championships 2017 · 11 Aug 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Puget Sound Fall 2016 · 15 Oct 2016 — 3 personal bests set
- Oregon 2016 · 27 Aug 2016 — 3 personal bests set
- Atomic Cubing Summer 2016 · 23 Jul 2016 — 4 personal bests set
- Puget Sound Open 2015 · 17 Oct 2015 — 2 personal bests set
- Keep Portland Weird 2015 · 19 Sep 2015
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.
- Saharsh Sai Vontela — met in 68 rounds, finished ahead 20 times
- Rex Gilmore — met in 54 rounds, finished ahead 39 times
- Benjamin Gottschalk — met in 53 rounds, finished ahead 19 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 one-handed single — 5 people have one; it is 1.74 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
Targets move as he improves.