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Eli Harker

2×2 · top 5.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023HARK06

Eli Harker has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.06, set at Idaho Championship 2024, puts him in the top 5.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,056th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since December 2023, he has put 153 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.65 in December 2023 to 9.29, a 57% improvement. Eli has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 5.2% of 186,767 all-time
2.06
signature single · Idaho Championship 2024
153
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.063.38
top 5.2%2,056 / 40,951
3×39.2912.24
top 5.6%3,107 / 59,724
Pyraminx6.928.88
top 27.2%7,468 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed23.5035.18
top 30.1%3,896 / 15,683
4×41:01.231:12.08
top 37.8%6,109 / 19,072
Megaminx1:50.422:26.42
top 40.6%2,945 / 7,841
Clock21.6128.69
top 69.1%5,960 / 8,927

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

Utah Snowball Bash 2023: 21.65Back in Boise 2024: 16.48CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024: 10.96Idaho Championship 2024: 9.29Utah Newcomers 2025: 9.29Burley Summer 2025: 10.46Boise One-Handed Blitz 2025: 10.979.2921.6516 Dec 20232 Aug 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.

  • Cade Beck — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Evan Beck — met in 31 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Damian Wilding — met in 30 rounds, finished ahead 5 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.