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Ethan Zhuang

2×2 · top 0.081% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2018 · 2018ZHUA10

Ethan Zhuang has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.66, set at Quabbin Spring 2026, puts him in the top 0.081% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 33rd in the United States. Until June 2015, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 150 competitions since September 2018, he has put 6,216 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 58.03 in September 2018 to 5.51, a 91% improvement. Ethan has entered 150 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.081% of 186,767 all-time
0.66
signature single · Quabbin Spring 2026
6,216
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.661.09
top 0.081%33 / 40,951
Clock2.352.96
top 0.16%16 / 8,927
3×35.516.78
top 0.25%171 / 59,724
Skewb1.462.62
top 0.4%65 / 18,907
Pyraminx1.632.91
top 0.59%179 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed10.0313.19
top 1.1%172 / 15,683
Square-17.5810.24
top 2.4%180 / 6,743
4×431.9135.50
top 4.1%659 / 19,072
Megaminx1:18.881:31.89
top 21.0%1,451 / 7,841
5×51:36.291:48.82
top 32.5%2,577 / 9,401

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

Connect Community 2018: 58.03BA Fall Cube Fest 2018: 50.20The Battle of Lexington 2018: 50.16Boston University Winter 2019: 35.09Salem Cube Trials 2019: 29.82Burke Mountain Cubing 2019: 31.86The Battle of Lexington 2019: 28.40STMHS Spring 2019: 34.75Cubing in Cambridge 2019: 29.88Colonie Spring 2019: 32.87Massachusetts Championship 2019: 26.57CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 26.73Quabbin Summer 2019: 29.48Providence Fall 2019: 26.07Empire State Fall 2019: 24.99Burke Mountain Fall 2019: 24.76BA Four 2019: 18.45MIT Winter 2020: 22.00Cubing with the Viking 2020: 18.74Deerfield Winter 2022: 13.84Empire State Spring 2022: 13.84Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022: 14.20CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 12.90Fast In Mass 2022: 11.79New York Championship 2022: 12.44Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 13.54Granite State 2022: 11.88East Brunswick Open 2022: 13.50Cubing in Beverly 2022: 9.68Amherst Open 2022: 12.14Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 9.29Naticube 2022: 10.08Empire State Fall 2022: 10.95Burke Mountain Cubing 2022: 9.96Loon Cubikon 2022: 10.66Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 9.63Puzzling in Providence 2023: 11.66Troy Story 2023: 9.50Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023: 9.36Fall River Cubikon 2023: 8.83Northampton Winter B 2023: 9.57Cape Cod 2023: 9.88Middleboro Cubikon 2023: 9.96Connecticut Spring 2023: 9.50New Hampshire Spring 2023: 9.43Cubehenge 2023: 9.86CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 9.22Winchester Weeknights II 2023: 9.52Quick in Quincy 2023: 9.35Winchester Weeknights III 2023: 9.44CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.15Winchester Weeknights IV 2023: 8.88Chemung Cubing 2023: 8.75Be Quick in Brunswick 2023: 8.93Mystic Cubikon 2023: 9.27Winchester Weeknights V 2023: 7.39Brookline Favorites 2023: 7.75Elm City Kubikon 2023: 7.64South Deerfield Side Events 2023: 8.38CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 8.23Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 8.60Northampton Fall B 2023: 8.75Vermont Cubikon 2023: 7.69Loon Cubikon 2023: 8.55Winchester Wind Down 2023: 8.53New York New Year 2024: 7.37Connecticut Winter 2024: 8.04Troy Story 2024: 8.30Fall River Cubikon 2024: 7.28WPI Winter 2024: 6.52PBs in Palisades 2024: 7.78The Battle of Concord 2024: 7.02Northampton Newcomers B 2024: 7.55Empire State Side Events 2024: 8.20Quabbin Newcomers 2024: 7.25Ridgefield Spring 2024: 7.55Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 7.81Saint John's Showdown 2024: 6.96Empire State Spring Sprint 2024: 8.45Upper Valley Cube Day 2024: 8.22New Jersey Championship 2024: 6.51A Morning in Cambridge 2024: 6.71Salem Cubikon 2024: 7.03New Hampshire Summer 2024: 7.50Lexington Weeknights I 2024: 8.42Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 7.07Wakefield MA Summer 2024: 6.86Lexington Weeknights II 2024: 9.52Saratoga Springs Summer 2024: 8.18Lexington Weeknights III 2024: 7.58Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.31Lexington Weeknights VI 2024: 7.91CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 7.60Brookline Favorites 2024: 7.29Lexing-not-a-ton of NxNs 2024: 6.72Ocean State Cubikon 2024: 6.23M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 8.40Quick in Quincy 2024: 6.87Springfield Cube Day 2024: 7.67Amherst Fall 2024: 7.05Loon Cubikon 2024: 6.28Wakefield Winter 2024: 6.57A Saturday in Ashfield 2024: 8.08Cubing at the Course CT 2025: 7.33The Battle of Lexington 2025: 6.89Fall River Cubikon 2025: 6.83Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 7.29PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 6.71The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 7.40WPI Spring 2025: 7.14Connecticut Spring 2025: 7.94Lexington Weeknights I 2025: 8.23Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 7.38Warm Up Seattle 2025: 7.12Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.35Lexington Weeknights III 2025: 7.96Mystic Cubikon 2025: 7.73Connecticut Championship 2025: 8.09Lexington Weeknights IV 2025: 7.53CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 6.34Cincinnati Open 2025: 7.00Lexington Weeknights VI 2025: 7.23CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 5.55Fitchburg Fall 2025: 6.50Cubing in Westerly RI 2025: 6.86Loon Cubikon NH 2025: 5.65Ipswich Fall 2025: 6.55Brown Cubing Day 2026: 6.36Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026: 6.72Wakefield MA Spring 2026: 6.54Cubing in Westerly RI 2026: 6.56Quabbin Spring 2026: 7.08Wells Dual 2026: 6.55Saint John's Summer 2026: 6.47NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 6.56Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 5.59Mystic Cubikon 2026: 5.51Deerfield MA Summer 2026: 5.95Brookline Favorites IV 2026: 6.645.5158.038 Sep 201829 Aug 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-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.