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Ethan Owens

Clock · top 1.4% of 32,817 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018OWEN01

Ethan Owens has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.44, set at North Carolina Championship 2025, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 134th in the United States. Until July 2018, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 37 competitions since May 2018, he has put 1,264 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.07 in November 2019 to 10.37, a 70% improvement. Ethan has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 1.4% of 32,817 all-time
3.44
signature single · North Carolina Championship 2025
1,264
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock3.444.25
top 1.4%134 / 9,172
Pyraminx2.484.38
top 2.2%571 / 29,168
Skewb2.474.45
top 2.8%421 / 19,164
3×310.3711.89
top 8.6%4,798 / 60,666
Megaminx59.031:04.44
top 9.5%676 / 8,026
4×439.4948.78
top 11.6%1,738 / 19,354
5×51:12.011:28.18
top 13.2%1,026 / 9,537
2×23.024.18
top 14.5%5,779 / 41,674
Square-116.0520.29
top 18.8%1,283 / 6,846
6×62:28.302:35.79
top 24.8%897 / 4,262
7×73:56.574:07.11
top 29.3%833 / 3,236
3×3 one-handed24.7628.11
top 33.7%4,490 / 15,900
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves44.67
top 44.8%982 / 2,059

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

Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2019: 35.07See Georgia: Lake Russell A 2024: 20.52Concord Summer 2024: 15.21CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 15.90Get Ready Grove City 2024: 15.78Bull City Summer NC 2024: 14.99Appalachian Highlands TN 2024: 14.39NCSU Wolfpack 2024: 12.22Kenosha First A 2024: 10.70Solving in Savannah 2025: 11.20Atlanta Algs at AIS 2025: 13.26Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025: 14.36Gobbler Cube Day Spring at VT 2025: 13.57North Carolina Championship 2025: 12.33Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 13.34CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 11.76Clemson Cube Catastrophe 2025: 13.05East Cobb Summer 2025: 13.33Concord Summer 2025: 11.85Atlanta Algs at AIS Autumn 2025: 12.85GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2025: 12.55Georgia Championship 2026: 12.57NxN Nonsense NC 2026: 11.70NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026: 10.37Middle Georgia March Madness 2026: 11.16Cube Against Cancer Roswell 2026: 12.45GA Cubers Pride 2026: 11.05Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 12.97Soda City Cubing SC 2026: 12.75GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2026: 11.3410.3735.0723 Nov 20194 Oct 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.

  • Katie Hull — met in 196 rounds, finished ahead 27 times
  • Nathan Smith — met in 178 rounds, finished ahead 89 times
  • Eddie Szuster — met in 173 rounds, finished ahead 67 times

Next targets

  • A sub-3 Clock single — 248 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.