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Ervin Brown

3×3 · top 0.75% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2018 · 2018BROW23

Ervin Brown has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.38, set at Wells Dual 2026, puts him in the top 0.75% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 489th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 24 competitions since December 2018, he has put 515 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.85 in December 2018 to 6.38, a 73% improvement. Ervin has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.75% of 284,439 all-time
6.38
signature single · Wells Dual 2026
515
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.388.66
top 0.75%489 / 59,724
2×21.492.02
top 2.1%841 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed16.1422.94
top 10.5%1,394 / 15,683
Skewb4.166.40
top 12.0%1,869 / 18,907
4×444.0347.26
top 17.1%2,596 / 19,072
Pyraminx5.747.18
top 18.1%4,800 / 28,708
5×52:17.912:36.83
top 59.9%5,140 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,479 / 2,040

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

Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 23.85Oklahoma Open 2019: 18.72Pittsburgh Spring 2019: 15.49River Hill Spring 2019: 14.79Richmond Spring 2019: 14.05CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 15.11Quabbin Summer 2019: 13.63Brooklyn Fall 2019: 13.78CubingUSA Western Championship 2021: 10.70Geffen Spring 2022: 10.30Granite State 2022: 9.14Cubing in Beverly 2022: 8.73Garden City Winter 2023: 9.20Cubing in Cambridge 2023: 8.74New Hampshire Spring 2023: 8.96New Hampshire Summer 2024: 7.58Loon Cubikon 2024: 7.11Cubing at Hampton Beach 2025: 8.70Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.87Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2025: 8.29Wells Dual 2026: 6.386.3823.858 Dec 20186 Jun 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.

  • Derek White — met in 72 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
  • Will Russo — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead 23 times
  • Ethan Zhuang — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 18 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.