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Ethan Alexander Apodaca
3×3 · top 45.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025APOD01
Ethan Alexander Apodaca has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 22.03, set at UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025, puts him in the top 45.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 26,683rd in the United States. Across 4 competitions since June 2025, he has put 62 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.81 in June 2025 to 22.03, a 21% improvement. Ethan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 22.03 | 27.11 | top 45.6% | 26,683 / 60,666 | |
| Skewb | 9.57 | 14.81 | top 52.3% | 9,552 / 19,164 | |
| 2×2 | 6.60 | 8.25 | top 57.0% | 23,726 / 41,674 | |
| Clock | 17.80 | 21.08 | top 58.1% | 4,990 / 9,172 | |
| 4×4 | 1:42.67 | — | early days — 1 solve | 13,240 / 19,354 | |
| Square-1 | 1:52.02 | — | early days — 2 solves | 6,751 / 6,846 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 21 Jun 2025First competition: West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025. A 27.81 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Summer 2025 · 20 Jul 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- West Coast Cubing Tour: San Diego 2025 · 21 Jun 2025
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.
- Shane Grogan — met in 14 rounds, never finished ahead
- Curren Stewart — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead
- Emil Lazaryev — met in 11 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-20 3×3 single — 115,495 people have one; it is 2.03 away.
- A sub-8 Skewb single — 30,669 people have one; it is 1.57 away.
Targets move as he improves.