People · United States
Ethan Wu
3×3 · top 11.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025WUET01
Ethan Wu has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.37, set at Ipswich Fall 2025, puts him in the top 11.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,295th in the United States. Across 14 competitions since January 2025, he has put 354 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.78 in January 2025 to 11.37, a 59% improvement. Ethan has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% 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 | 11.37 | 15.43 | top 11.7% | 6,295 / 59,724 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.29 | 8.60 | top 15.0% | 3,934 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 3.25 | 3.73 | top 17.2% | 6,726 / 40,951 | |
| Clock | 10.55 | 13.74 | top 27.8% | 2,139 / 8,927 | |
| Skewb | 6.55 | 11.69 | top 30.1% | 4,955 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 23.71 | 35.30 | top 30.7% | 3,968 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 1:02.60 | 1:08.28 | top 39.3% | 6,384 / 19,072 | |
| Square-1 | 28.16 | 42.79 | top 46.0% | 2,993 / 6,743 | |
| Megaminx | 2:14.01 | — | top 53.2% | 3,984 / 7,841 | |
| 5×5 | 2:30.64 | — | top 66.0% | 5,758 / 9,401 | |
| 6×6 | 6:56.27 | — | early days — 1 solve | 3,971 / 4,196 | |
| 7×7 | 9:23.81 | — | early days — 1 solve | 3,090 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 22 Nov 2025Five personal bests in one day at New Hampshire Championship 2025.
- 16 Nov 2025First sub-15 3×3: 13.84 at Loon Cubikon NH 2025.
- 16 Nov 2025Four personal bests in one day at Loon Cubikon NH 2025.
- 20 Sep 2025Three personal bests in one day at Fitchburg Fall 2025.
- 1 Aug 2025First sub-20 3×3: 18.03 at CubingUSA New England Championship 2025.
- 11 Jan 2025First competition: The Battle of Lexington 2025. A 27.78 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Brookline Favorites IV 2026 · 29 Aug 2026
- Saint John's Summer 2026 · 13 Jun 2026
- Cubing in Westerly RI 2026 · 9 May 2026
- Wakefield MA Spring 2026 · 4 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026 · 21 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- The Battle of Concord MA 2026 · 8 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Ipswich Fall 2025 · 13 Dec 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- New Hampshire Championship 2025 · 22 Nov 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Loon Cubikon NH 2025 · 16 Nov 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing on Lake Cochituate 2025 · 25 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Fitchburg Fall 2025 · 20 Sep 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2025 · 1 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 1 personal best set
- The Battle of Lexington 2025 · 11 Jan 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.
- Ethan Zhuang — met in 69 rounds, never finished ahead
- Derek White — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead once
- Syed Mekaeel Ghani — met in 64 rounds, finished ahead 58 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.37 away.
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
Targets move as he improves.