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Elika Kainoa

Pyraminx · top 14.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015KAIN01

Elika Kainoa has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.24, set at Portland in a Pyra Tree 2025, puts him in the top 14.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,853rd in the United States. Across 24 competitions since September 2015, he has put 479 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.95 in September 2015 to 12.54, a 68% improvement. Elika has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 14.7% of 129,321 all-time
5.24
signature single · Portland in a Pyra Tree 2025
479
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx5.2410.66
top 14.7%3,853 / 28,708
3×312.5413.94
top 15.8%8,463 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed21.4330.69
top 24.4%3,143 / 15,683
4×449.731:01.57
top 24.4%3,728 / 19,072
Megaminx1:26.631:47.82
top 26.0%1,788 / 7,841
Skewb6.7012.98
top 31.3%5,180 / 18,907
2×24.605.93
top 34.2%13,624 / 40,951
5×51:50.281:56.42
top 42.8%3,489 / 9,401
Clock27.08—
top 80.4%7,104 / 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

Keep Portland Weird 2015: 38.95Puget Sound Open 2015: 32.07PDX Cubing Beta 2015: 25.02Oregon State Alpha 2016: 23.99PDX Cubing Alpha 2016: 18.20Rose City 2016: 22.52US Nationals 2016: 16.34PDX Cubing for Dougy 2016: 15.98Eugene 3x3 Mania 2017: 18.16Rose City 2017: 17.83PortlaNxNd 2024: 16.72Hillsboro Favorites 2024: 16.18Oregon Championship 2024: 16.20McMinnville Cubing Fall 2024: 13.65Eugene Harvest Cubing 2024: 14.56Hillsboro Winter 2025: 13.69Eugene Cubing Spring 2025: 13.54Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025: 14.66Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 14.06Oregon Championship 2025: 13.25UO Fall 2025: 13.07Portland in a Pyra Tree 2025: 12.54McMinnville Favorites 2026: 14.89Northwest Championship 2026: 12.8512.5438.9519 Sep 201521 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-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.24 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.54 away.

Targets move as he improves.