People · United States
James Gettinger
2×2 · top 6.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022GETT01
James Gettinger has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.28, set at Liberty Science Center Open A 2025, puts him in the top 6.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,720th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since September 2022, he has put 287 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 40.07 in September 2022 to 13.95, a 65% improvement. James has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.28 | 4.18 | top 6.9% | 2,720 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.34 | 7.63 | top 15.4% | 4,033 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 | 13.95 | 16.00 | top 20.8% | 11,201 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 7.78 | 11.34 | top 39.6% | 6,817 / 18,907 | |
| 4×4 | 1:07.94 | 1:23.41 | top 44.8% | 7,444 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 33.65 | 40.66 | top 54.7% | 7,589 / 15,683 | |
| Megaminx | 2:18.04 | 2:37.17 | top 55.3% | 4,154 / 7,841 | |
| 5×5 | 2:44.58 | — | early days — 2 solves | 6,410 / 9,401 | |
| Clock | 23.95 | — | early days — 3 solves | 6,506 / 8,927 | |
| Square-1 | 58.82 | — | early days — 3 solves | 5,541 / 6,743 |
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
- 29 Jun 2024Three personal bests in one day at Cubing in the Ocean County 2024.
- 13 Apr 2024First sub-15 3×3: 14.92 at Edgemont Cubing 2024.
- 13 Apr 2024Three personal bests in one day at Edgemont Cubing 2024.
- 25 Feb 2023Five personal bests in one day at Pretzel Mania 2023.
- 3 Dec 2022First sub-20 3×3: 17.50 at New York Yopen 2022.
- 3 Dec 2022Three personal bests in one day at New York Yopen 2022.
Competitions
- NYU Spring 2026 · 5 Apr 2026
- Liberty Science Center Open A 2025 · 15 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing in the Ocean County 2024 · 29 Jun 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- New Jersey Championship 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Edgemont Cubing 2024 · 13 Apr 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- NYU Winter 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Manhattan Mini C 2023 · 10 Dec 2023
- Newark's On Track 2023 · 26 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023 · 17 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- GCU Spring 2023 · 6 May 2023
- Penn Cube Day Spring 2023 · 4 Mar 2023
- Pretzel Mania 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- New York Yopen 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Naticube 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Babylon Summer 2022 · 18 Sep 2022
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.
- Ayden Dincher — met in 51 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ishan Donavalli — met in 45 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Evan Liu — met in 42 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
Targets move as he improves.