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Ethan Tamayo

3×3 · top 3.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since June 2023 · 2023TAMA03

Ethan Tamayo has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.54, set at Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,189th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since June 2023, he has put 620 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.37 in June 2023 to 8.54, a 25% improvement. Ethan has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 288,433 all-time
8.54
signature single · Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025
620
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.549.65
top 3.9%2,189 / 60,666
2×21.913.27
top 4.2%1,692 / 41,674
3×3 one-handed14.6119.55
top 7.4%999 / 15,900
4×437.9244.25
top 9.8%1,484 / 19,354
Megaminx1:00.571:05.36
top 10.4%730 / 8,026
Skewb4.017.33
top 11.0%1,723 / 19,164
Pyraminx4.957.57
top 12.9%3,405 / 29,168
Square-113.7919.15
top 13.8%953 / 6,846
5×51:22.051:23.28
top 20.9%1,649 / 9,537
Clock10.0311.98
top 25.0%1,969 / 9,172
6×63:17.233:23.34
top 49.2%1,862 / 4,262
3×3 blindfolded3:05.86—
early days — 2 solves1,166 / 2,128
7×75:26.71—
early days — 2 solves1,784 / 3,236

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

CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 11.37CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 10.81Parsippany Mini PM 2024: 12.83CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 11.15High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 12.96Catskills Spring 2025: 8.62Binghamton Cube Day 2025: 11.17American Dream NJ 2025: 10.40Long Island Summer 2025: 9.83Mystic Cubikon 2025: 9.73Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 9.76Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 8.54Corning Summer 2026: 10.00Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 9.29Montauk 2026: 8.648.5412.9617 Jun 202319 Sep 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 110 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Rex Ozsvath — met in 75 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
  • Nico Ozsvath — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead 7 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.54 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.