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Ethan Au

3×3 · top 29.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017AUET01

Ethan Au has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.59, set at Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2024, puts him in the top 29.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,307th in the United States. Across 10 competitions since April 2017, he has put 153 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:29.61 in April 2017 to 16.59, an 81% improvement. Ethan has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 29.7% of 284,439 all-time
16.59
signature single · Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2024
153
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.5923.09
top 29.7%16,307 / 59,724
Pyraminx7.4312.50
top 31.4%8,767 / 28,708
Skewb8.9115.67
top 47.8%8,488 / 18,907
2×25.878.50
top 49.5%20,124 / 40,951
4×41:28.171:41.73
top 62.3%10,876 / 19,072

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

Las Vegas Spring 2017: 1:29.61Skillcon 2017: 1:06.77Las Vegas Spring 2018: 1:06.81Las Vegas Spring 2019: 53.87Bobcat Battle 2019: 47.69Cubing on the Octagon 2022: 26.06Bobcat Battle 2023: 24.76Bobcat Battle Fall 2023: 19.71Bobcat Battle Newcomers 2024: 18.41Vegas Cubing Cup Summer 2024: 16.5916.591:29.618 Apr 201724 Aug 2024

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.59 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.