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Ethan Ling

3×3 one-handed · top 1.2% of 74,621 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022LING03

Ethan Ling has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.13, set at Singapore March Classics 2025, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 74,621 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 26th in Canada. Until December 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since July 2022, he has put 568 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 one-handed best has come down from 17.35 in July 2022 to 10.13, a 42% improvement. Ethan has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.2% of 74,621 all-time
10.13
signature single · Singapore March Classics 2025
568
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×3 one-handed10.1313.79
top 1.2%26 / 2,632
3×38.2510.28
top 3.3%326 / 10,502
5×51:02.841:12.75
top 7.2%86 / 1,546
Pyraminx4.037.87
top 7.8%279 / 4,913
4×436.7541.05
top 8.5%200 / 3,180
2×22.503.47
top 9.0%586 / 7,245
7×73:04.993:31.05
top 12.0%43 / 519
Megaminx1:04.561:12.75
top 12.4%111 / 1,393
6×62:06.572:20.54
top 14.0%63 / 683
3×3 blindfolded1:11.591:59.19
top 16.7%53 / 362
Skewb6.969.32
top 33.4%835 / 2,928
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves—
early days — 2 solves106 / 284
Square-127.9934.24
top 45.7%405 / 973

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

Spruce Grove Summer 2022: 17.35NA Stadium Series - Edmonton 2024: 16.18Solved Central Alberta 2024: 14.63Singapore Championship 2025: 14.54Singapore Small and Sides Feb 2025: 12.61Singapore Skewby March 2025: 15.22Singapore March Classics 2025: 10.13UoSM Cube Open SOR 2025: 12.93OH My March Singapore 2025: 15.02Halifax Fall 2025: 13.35Edmonton Winter 2026: 13.00Canadian Prairie Championship 2026: 13.54Brampton Summer 2026: 12.0310.1317.3530 Jul 202229 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3 one-handed. 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 800 people have one; it is 0.13 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.