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Dylan Michaels

5×5 · top 1.8% of 41,402 all-time · competing since February 2023 · 2023MICH03

Dylan Michaels has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 50.02, set at Wolfpack Wednesday NC I 2026, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 41,402 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 145th in the United States. Until August 2014, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since February 2023, he has put 633 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Dylan has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 1.8% of 41,402 all-time
50.02
signature single · Wolfpack Wednesday NC I 2026
633
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
5×550.0256.53
top 1.8%145 / 9,537
4×429.2837.00
top 2.4%408 / 19,354
6×61:43.231:49.36
top 5.0%173 / 4,262
3×39.1410.47
top 5.2%2,968 / 60,666
7×72:42.072:46.49
top 6.0%165 / 3,236
2×23.124.53
top 15.7%6,218 / 41,674
3×3 one-handed22.7530.77
top 28.2%3,679 / 15,900
Pyraminx8.9813.50
top 44.7%13,037 / 29,168
Megaminx2:03.632:05.54
top 48.0%3,630 / 8,026
Clock15.8419.14
top 51.3%4,310 / 9,172
Square-135.4042.25
top 59.1%3,954 / 6,846
Skewb20.0925.63
top 89.8%17,549 / 19,164

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

Solving in Shreveport 2023: 9.94Bayou Big Cubes 2023: 10.13Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 9.25DFW Spring Warmup 2023: 10.93CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.51Brazos Cubing Fall 2023: 10.54Cube With Attention in Denton 2023: 9.14Longhorn Cube Day 2023: 10.43Texas Championship 2023: 9.28Space City Winter 2024: 9.78DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 9.90DFW Megacomp 2024: 10.13CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 11.08Brazos Cubing Fall 2024: 9.699.1411.085 Feb 202320 Oct 2024

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.

  • Ryan Pilat — met in 116 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Ray Bai — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Dylan Baumbach — met in 77 rounds, finished ahead 19 times

Next targets

  • A sub-50 5×5 single — 733 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 4.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.