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Ethan Ekstrom

3×3 · top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018EKST01

Ethan Ekstrom has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.55, set at Lakewood Newcomers 2024, puts him in the top 3.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 125th in Sweden. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 81 competitions since January 2018, he has put 2,177 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.16 in January 2018 to 8.55, a 53% improvement. Ethan has entered 81 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.55
signature single · Lakewood Newcomers 2024
2,177
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSweden
3×38.5511.08
top 3.8%125 / 2,925
2×21.923.41
top 4.2%162 / 2,325
Pyraminx3.184.54
top 4.3%111 / 1,730
Skewb4.267.02
top 12.7%187 / 1,173
3×3 one-handed20.0524.94
top 20.6%182 / 868
Clock10.7812.74
top 29.0%150 / 546
4×456.531:02.33
top 32.5%286 / 1,120
Megaminx1:59.062:06.32
top 45.2%225 / 564
5×52:17.192:43.08
top 59.4%281 / 562

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

Skyline Open 2018: 18.16Puget Sound Valentine 2018: 18.03Puget Sound Spring 2018: 17.05SnoCo Fall 2018: 14.66Puget Sound NxNxN 2018: 16.30Welcome to 2019: 14.41West Seattle Favorites 2019: 15.26SnoCo Feet Fest 2019: 13.27Puget Sound Spring 2019: 13.81SnoCo Fall 2019: 13.88Washington Championship 2020: 14.11Central Washington Winter 2020: 13.85SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021: 12.04PLU NxN 2022: 12.83Bothell Spring 2022: 12.21Rose City First-Timers B 2022: 12.14Odd Seattle Summer 2022: 11.66SnoCo Favorites 2022: 12.70Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022: 10.51New Kent On The Block 2022: 9.86SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022: 11.80Lynnwood Winter 2023: 12.22Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 11.01Central Washington Odds 2023: 11.40Washington Championship 2023: 10.59Welcome to Olympia 2023: 10.56Lakewood Spring 2023: 11.75Kent Spring 2023: 12.28Mill Creek 2023: 12.83Bothell Summer 2023: 11.92Maltby Mega Special 2023: 11.14Canadian Championship 2023: 11.39Stumptown Speedcubing Summer 2023: 12.30SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 9.65Kent Summer 2023: 10.80Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 10.89Lakewood Fall 2023: 11.79Odd Olympia 2023: 11.72SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 10.73UW or U Don't 2023: 11.31Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024: 11.24Kenmore Mini C 2024: 10.66Couve Cubing Spring 2024: 11.19Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 8.55Olympia Classic 2024: 11.47Kent Spring 2024: 11.07Bellingham Spring 2024: 11.14CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 10.24Panhandle Lake Cube & Camp 2024: 11.22Tacoma Summer 2024: 10.14Kent Summer 2024: 10.20Oregon Championship 2024: 10.38Bellevue Cubing Afternoon - Highlands 2024: 10.97Olympia Fall 2024: 11.64Lakewood Fall 2024: 9.46Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024: 9.17Tacoma Winter 2025: 11.66Bellevue Squan Fest January 2025: 10.74Lakewood Newcomers 2025: 10.16Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025: 11.48Central Washington Evens 2025: 10.39Warmup for Worlds Olympia 2025: 10.42Kent Spring 2025: 11.02Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.14Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025: 9.91 Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025: 9.53Seattle Cube Cascade UW 2025: 10.05Uppsalaligan 3: Boost - 2025: 11.63Cuboss Open 2025: 11.88Kent Fall 2025: 10.83North Sound Spring 2026: 9.16Lakewood Spring 2026: 11.28Kent Spring 2026: 9.68Seattle Summer 2026: 10.37Paradise Place Thailand Cube Open 2026: 10.508.5518.1627 Jan 201828 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.