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Ian Martinson

4×4 · top 3.1% of 85,040 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022MART20

Ian Martinson has been competing for 4 years. Their best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 30.40, set at Brown County Big Cubes 2026, puts them in the top 3.1% of the 85,040 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 514th in the United States. Until August 2011, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since May 2022, they have put 548 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 52% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Their 3×3 best has come down from 10.17 in May 2022 to 8.41, a 17% improvement. Ian has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 3.1% of 85,040 all-time
30.40
signature single · Brown County Big Cubes 2026
548
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×430.4036.83
top 3.1%514 / 19,354
3×38.4110.24
top 3.6%2,052 / 60,666
Megaminx49.6856.41
top 5.0%363 / 8,026
5×51:04.231:11.00
top 8.0%635 / 9,537
Clock6.337.65
top 8.4%668 / 9,172
Square-113.2419.04
top 12.5%875 / 6,846
7×73:11.743:29.55
top 13.8%390 / 3,236
6×62:06.812:09.63
top 14.1%515 / 4,262
2×23.034.44
top 14.6%5,821 / 41,674
3×3 one-handed20.0022.76
top 20.5%2,664 / 15,900
Pyraminx7.8511.15
top 35.0%10,039 / 29,168
Skewb8.8016.46
top 47.2%8,471 / 19,164

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

River Hill Spring 2022: 10.17Silver Spring Summer 2022: 11.89River Hill Fall 2022: 10.23Dunkirk Winter 2023: 10.95Potomac Spring 2023: 10.34Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 9.44Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 9.99River Hill Fall 2023: 9.98MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 9.60NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 8.63River Hill Spring 2024: 9.07Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 8.41Preble Spring 2025: 10.13TJHSST Spring 2025: 9.69Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.558.4111.8914 May 20222 Jul 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,465 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as they improves.