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Ethan Pike

3×3 · top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024PIKE01

Ethan Pike has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.57, set at Liberty Science Center Open A 2026, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,194th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since March 2024, he has put 409 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.49 in March 2024 to 8.57, a 69% improvement. Ethan has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.57
signature single · Liberty Science Center Open A 2026
409
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.5711.97
top 3.9%2,194 / 59,724
2×22.724.38
top 11.1%4,396 / 40,951
Clock10.8113.06
top 29.2%2,267 / 8,927
Pyraminx7.209.04
top 29.5%8,174 / 28,708
Skewb7.619.76
top 38.3%6,577 / 18,907
4×41:04.281:08.86
top 41.0%6,691 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed28.8134.07
top 43.9%5,927 / 15,683
Square-132.731:20.96
top 54.5%3,602 / 6,743
5×52:21.39—
early days — 2 solves5,316 / 9,401
Megaminx2:53.23—
early days — 2 solves5,536 / 7,841

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

Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 27.49Ridgefield Spring 2024: 27.14Edgemont Cubing 2024: 23.93Great Peconic Bay Spring 2024: 23.06Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 22.80Westport Summer 2024: 21.07An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 16.39M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 15.70Flushing Open AM 2024: 16.53Kisco Cubing 2025: 13.42PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 15.00Hudson Valley Winter 2025: 16.38Flushing Glow Open AM 2025: 14.68PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 14.93Liberty Science Center Open B 2025: 13.01Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 12.68Liberty Science Center Fall B 2025: 10.89Westport Fall 2025: 11.97Westport Icebreaker 2026: 11.57PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 10.23Liberty Science Center Open A 2026: 8.57No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026: 11.208.5727.4916 Mar 20249 May 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.57 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as he improves.