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Ethan Mai

2×2 · top 0.35% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022MAIE03

Ethan Mai has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.88, set at Ocean State Cubikon 2024, puts him in the top 0.35% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 148th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since November 2022, he has put 1,210 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.02 in November 2022 to 6.03, a 67% improvement. Ethan has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.35% of 186,767 all-time
0.88
signature single · Ocean State Cubikon 2024
1,210
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.881.41
top 0.35%148 / 40,951
3×36.037.38
top 0.5%335 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed10.7117.89
top 1.6%255 / 15,683
Pyraminx2.685.12
top 2.7%711 / 28,708
Skewb2.545.42
top 3.1%465 / 18,907
Clock4.706.13
top 3.7%304 / 8,927
4×431.4836.47
top 3.8%606 / 19,072
5×51:11.471:25.13
top 12.7%977 / 9,401
Square-116.2125.86
top 19.1%1,294 / 6,743
Megaminx1:33.79—
top 30.6%2,149 / 7,841
6×62:43.753:08.27
top 32.9%1,171 / 4,196
7×75:28.575:47.21
top 59.3%1,772 / 3,184

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

Loon Cubikon 2022: 18.02Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 14.31Cubing in Cambridge 2023: 9.73CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.26Mystic Cubikon 2023: 8.00Loon Cubikon 2023: 7.77The Battle of Concord 2024: 8.78Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 8.34CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 7.11Ocean State Cubikon 2024: 8.24Quick in Quincy 2024: 7.14Loon Cubikon 2024: 7.35A Saturday in Ashfield 2024: 7.01The Battle of Lexington 2025: 7.16Fall River Cubikon 2025: 7.09Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 7.08The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 7.57Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.41Mystic Cubikon 2025: 8.13CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 7.46Brookline Favorites III 2025: 7.37Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2025: 6.03Loon Cubikon NH 2025: 6.90Ipswich Fall 2025: 8.45The Battle of Concord MA 2026: 6.76Fitchburg Spring 2026: 6.28Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.37Woonsocket Cubikon 2026: 7.35Brookline Favorites IV 2026: 6.546.0318.0220 Nov 202229 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 0.03 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.