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Elam Matthew Wenger

2×2 · top 9.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024WENG03

Elam Matthew Wenger has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.58, set at Northern Kentucky 2024, puts him in the top 9.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,826th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since June 2024, he has put 55 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.22 in June 2024 to 13.84, a 20% improvement. Elam has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 9.7% of 186,767 all-time
2.58
signature single · Northern Kentucky 2024
55
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.584.67
top 9.7%3,826 / 40,951
3×313.8417.95
top 20.4%10,996 / 59,724
Skewb6.779.14
top 31.8%5,291 / 18,907

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

Northern Kentucky 2024: 17.22Put-in-Bay 2025: 18.70Many Cubes in Mansfield 2025: 13.8413.8418.7015 Jun 20247 Jun 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 0.58 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.