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Ethan Glynn

2×2 · top 0.29% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023GLYN01

Ethan Glynn has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.85, set at DuPage Winter 2024, puts him in the top 0.29% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 126th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since April 2023, he has put 804 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.62 in April 2023 to 7.84, a 62% improvement. Ethan has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.29% of 186,767 all-time
0.85
signature single · DuPage Winter 2024
804
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.851.97
top 0.29%126 / 40,951
3×37.849.36
top 2.5%1,458 / 59,724
Clock4.986.49
top 4.4%355 / 8,927
Pyraminx3.746.09
top 6.4%1,652 / 28,708
Skewb3.775.09
top 9.4%1,439 / 18,907
4×441.1254.84
top 13.4%2,001 / 19,072
5×51:27.401:31.17
top 25.2%1,969 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed21.9130.22
top 25.8%3,325 / 15,683
6×62:58.243:12.51
top 40.2%1,465 / 4,196
7×74:28.704:43.80
top 40.6%1,152 / 3,184
Megaminx1:51.892:05.00
top 41.4%3,009 / 7,841
Square-150.71—
top 76.7%5,084 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves59 moves—
early days — 2 solves1,904 / 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

Swallow Spring 2023: 20.62West Side Cube Clash 2023: 13.95Warm Up in Mount Prospect 2023: 14.55Evanston Summer Big Cubes 2023: 13.08DeKalb Cubing Fall 2023: 10.25Green Bay 2023: 9.44Milwaukee Cubing Mania 2024: 8.60DuPage Winter 2024: 10.32Sturgeon Bay Big Cubes 2024: 9.28Muske-GO 2024: 9.82Wisconsin Qualifier 2024: 10.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.99Cubing in Oak Creek 2024: 7.846x6 Still in a Madison Park 2024: 9.36CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 8.12Pyraminx in Pewaukee 2024: 9.22Kenosha First A 2024: 10.23Door County Cube Challenge 2025: 9.42Wisconsin Championship 2025: 8.547.8420.6222 Apr 20234 Oct 2025

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 1.84 away.
  • A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.