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Elijah Rain Phelps

Square-1 · top 0.079% of 25,272 all-time · competing since July 2019 · 2019PHEL01

Elijah Rain Phelps has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 4.33, set at Naticube 2022, puts him in the top 0.079% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10th in the United States. Until October 2022, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 90 competitions since July 2019, he has put 5,137 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.64 in July 2019 to 5.28, a 66% improvement. Elijah has entered 90 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.079% of 25,272 all-time
4.33
signature single · Naticube 2022
5,137
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Square-14.336.64
top 0.079%10 / 6,743
Skewb1.243.15
top 0.15%22 / 18,907
3×35.287.17
top 0.18%127 / 59,724
Pyraminx1.372.05
top 0.29%100 / 28,708
2×20.891.83
top 0.36%154 / 40,951
Clock3.204.05
top 1.0%104 / 8,927
4×426.2930.44
top 1.1%183 / 19,072
5×549.2258.39
top 1.6%136 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed10.9013.46
top 1.7%282 / 15,683
Megaminx43.5549.54
top 2.6%189 / 7,841
6×61:51.412:04.08
top 7.7%267 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves35.00
top 17.4%385 / 2,040
7×73:24.013:37.21
top 17.7%495 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:06.322:20.98
top 35.6%737 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 11:56—
early days — 1 solve499 / 731

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

Massachusetts Championship 2019: 15.64Empire State Fall 2019: 12.05Burke Mountain Fall 2019: 12.02BA Four 2019: 11.41MIT Winter 2020: 9.96Constitution State Winter 2020: 9.18Cubing with the Viking 2020: 9.37Empire State Summer A 2021: 8.92Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 8.63Empire State Winter B 2022: 7.43Deerfield Winter 2022: 7.89Maine Spring 2022: 7.70Saint John's Spring 2022: 6.40CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 7.22Fast In Mass 2022: 7.06New York Championship 2022: 8.06Westport Summer 2022: 7.26Amherst Open 2022: 7.31Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 7.07Naticube 2022: 8.03Burke Mountain Cubing 2022: 7.50Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 8.20Mum's the Word 2023: 7.82Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 6.30Empire State Winter Whirl 2023: 7.32Northampton Winter A 2023: 7.17Saint John's Scramble 2023: 6.20New Hampshire Spring 2023: 6.47CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 7.33Silver City Side Events 2023: 7.22CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.30Brookline Favorites 2023: 6.76Elm City Kubikon 2023: 5.56South Deerfield Side Events 2023: 5.49CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 7.65Northampton Fall A 2023: 5.81Winchester Wind Down 2023: 7.88Connecticut Winter 2024: 6.51Rhode Island Winter 2024: 6.39The Battle of Lexington 2024: 6.82Naticube 2024: 7.43Cardinal Cube Day 2024: 6.49Northampton Newcomers D 2024: 6.71Empire State Side Events 2024: 7.76Ridgefield Spring 2024: 6.31Saint John's Showdown 2024: 6.98QuabbiNxN 2024: 6.64South Deerfield Clock Fest 2024: 6.87New Hampshire Summer 2024: 7.57Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.00CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 7.19Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 6.67QuabbiNxN Fall 2024: 6.68Ticonderoga 2024: 7.40Springfield Cube Day 2024: 6.76Amherst Fall 2024: 6.29Ashfield Winter Open 2024: 6.32A Saturday in Ashfield 2024: 6.29Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 7.69The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 6.55Salem Cubikon 2025: 6.68Upper Valley Cube Day 2025: 7.39Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.58Connecticut Championship 2025: 7.03CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 7.10Ashfield Summer NxN 2025: 7.03Burlington Cube Day 2025: 6.85Saint Mike's Cube Fest VT 2025: 5.28New Hampshire Championship 2025: 6.37Burke Mountain Cubikon 2025: 6.09Berkshires Cube Day at BART 2026: 6.74UMass Spring 2026: 6.09Saint Mikes Winter VT 2026: 6.49Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026: 5.99RIT Tiger Twist 2026: 6.84Quabbin Spring 2026: 6.42Wells Dual 2026: 6.35Saint John's Summer 2026: 6.74Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.39Mystic Cubikon 2026: 5.94Hampton Beach Summer 2026: 6.53Deerfield MA Summer 2026: 6.485.2815.6426 Jul 201922 Aug 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-4 Square-1 single — 11 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.