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Ethan Littlejohn

3×3 · top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016LITT01

Ethan Littlejohn has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.56, set at West Coast Cubing Tour - Fresno 2018, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,181st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since January 2016, he has put 859 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.14 in January 2016 to 8.56, a 71% improvement. Ethan has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.56
signature single · West Coast Cubing Tour - Fresno 2018
859
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.5610.03
top 3.9%2,181 / 59,724
2×22.334.22
top 7.3%2,895 / 40,951
4×436.7844.84
top 8.5%1,275 / 19,072
5×51:05.481:25.46
top 8.7%678 / 9,401
Skewb3.798.74
top 9.5%1,451 / 18,907
Pyraminx5.148.90
top 14.1%3,683 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed18.3825.51
top 16.1%2,076 / 15,683
Megaminx1:21.971:36.20
top 23.1%1,587 / 7,841
6×62:37.202:54.54
top 29.3%1,032 / 4,196
7×74:03.534:07.98
top 32.1%893 / 3,184
Square-125.7039.53
top 40.7%2,638 / 6,743

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 8 2016: 29.14Berkeley Winter 2016: 25.81Bay Area Speedcubin' 9 2016: 17.64US Nationals 2016: 16.19Berkeley Summer 2016: 13.72Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016: 14.51Reno Fall 2016: 11.95Armin Open 2017: 13.31Berkeley Winter 2017: 14.23SacCubing I 2017: 11.79Berkeley Spring 2017: 13.38Reno Spring 2017: 12.666.25 Bay Area 2017: 14.64CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 13.60San Ramon 2017: 10.04SacCubing II 2017: 8.79Fresno Fall 2017: 11.68San Francisco Bay Open 2017: 10.07Berkeley Fall 2017: 9.17SacCubing III 2018: 12.21Berkeley Winter 2018: 11.05Berkeley Spring 2018: 9.21SacCubing IV 2018: 10.98CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 9.68West Coast Cubing Tour - Fresno 2018: 8.56CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.35SacCubing V 2018: 9.55SacCubing VI 2019: 8.78SacCubing VIII 2019: 9.95Bobcat Battle 2023: 10.438.5629.143 Jan 20161 Apr 2023

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.

  • Paul Mahvi — met in 157 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Tyler Howlett — met in 139 rounds, finished ahead 12 times
  • Ryan Jew — met in 125 rounds, finished ahead 22 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.