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Ethan Basanov

3×3 · top 1.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015BASA02

Ethan Basanov has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.72, set at Canadian Prairie Championship 2024, puts him in the top 1.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 103rd in Canada. Until January 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 51 competitions since August 2015, he has put 2,038 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.99 in August 2015 to 6.72, a 76% improvement. Ethan has entered 51 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.0% of 284,439 all-time
6.72
signature single · Canadian Prairie Championship 2024
2,038
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×36.728.28
top 1.0%103 / 10,392
Pyraminx2.273.29
top 1.6%60 / 4,858
2×21.462.98
top 2.0%126 / 7,173
Megaminx43.2949.30
top 2.5%17 / 1,375
3×3 one-handed12.4718.73
top 3.6%80 / 2,620
4×431.8036.51
top 4.0%94 / 3,118
5×559.961:11.73
top 5.5%61 / 1,499
Skewb3.174.85
top 5.9%105 / 2,907
Square-111.2313.91
top 8.4%66 / 952
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves33.33
top 9.9%32 / 283
6×62:05.092:17.63
top 13.3%60 / 665
Clock7.898.93
top 14.7%115 / 1,029
7×73:21.553:38.53
top 16.8%61 / 503
3×3 blindfolded1:40.732:07.33
top 26.8%86 / 351
4×4 blindfolded13:16.00—
early days — 2 solves42 / 60
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 4 cubes · 25:36—
top 75.7%91 / 112

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

Edmonton Open Summer 2015: 27.99Edmonton Open Winter 2016: 18.65Calgary Open Spring 2016: 14.62Edmonton Limited Summer 2016: 11.47Calgary Limited Fall 2016: 12.35Canadian Open 2017: 11.06Sherwood Park Open Summer 2017: 10.19Foothills Fall 2017: 8.40Cubing Under the Stars 2018: 9.19Battle for Foothills Limited 2018: 7.20Canada's Best in the West 2018: 8.31Foothills Fright 2018: 7.923x3 Only Calgary 2019: 8.98Foothills Final Fight 2019: 8.15Solved Central Alberta 2019: 8.18Edmonton Summer Twist 2022: 8.90Rockies Rager Fall 2022: 7.63Sylvan Solves 2022: 8.77Welcome Back Calgary 2023: 7.01Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2023: 9.12Sherwood Park Summer 2023: 7.44Calgary Summer Classic 2023: 7.65Odd Day in Sylvan 2023: 8.53Saskatchewan Open 2023: 8.28Foothills NxNs 2023: 7.46Afraid in Airdrie 2023: 7.65Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2024: 8.11Battle of Alberta 2024: 6.91New to Sherwood Park 2024: 7.67Mother Earth's Charter Spring 2024: 7.84Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2024: 8.40Saskatchewan Big Cubes 2024: 8.97Cubing Among the Drumheller Dinosaurs 2024: 6.90Solved Central Alberta 2024: 7.13Airdrie NxNs 2024: 8.88Canadian Prairie Championship 2024: 6.72Alberta 10th Anniversary 2025: 7.22Battle of Alberta 2025: 7.83Southern Alberta Cubing 2025: 7.43Calgary Summer B 2025: 7.80Calgary Fall 2026: 8.116.7227.9929 Aug 201529 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.