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Ethan Niles Hogue
3×3 · top 44.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2025 · 2025HOGU01
Ethan Niles Hogue has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.66, set at UCLA Spring 2026, puts him in the top 44.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 25,640th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since August 2025, he has put 30 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 46.30 in August 2025 to 21.66, a 53% improvement. Ethan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 21.66 | 27.07 | top 44.5% | 25,640 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 16.92 | 23.28 | top 93.0% | 38,611 / 40,951 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Oct 2025First sub-30 3×3: 25.40 at Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025.
- 24 Aug 2025First competition: UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025. A 46.30 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UCLA Spring 2026 · 15 Feb 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025 · 18 Oct 2025
- Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025 · 24 Aug 2025
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.
- Ryan Woytowitz — met in 6 rounds, never finished ahead
- Emil Lazaryev — met in 6 rounds, never finished ahead
- Joseph Wu — met in 6 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.66 away.
- A sub-15 2×2 single — 169,048 people have one; it is 1.92 away.
Targets move as he improves.