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Jared Sikes
3×3 Fewest Moves · top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019SIKE01
Jared Sikes has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 26 moves, set at Big Brain Minnesota 2026, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 149th in the United States. Across 9 competitions since January 2019, he has put 271 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.93 in January 2019 to 10.28, a 48% improvement. Jared has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% 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 Fewest Moves | 26 moves | 34.67 | early days — 3 solves | 149 / 2,040 | |
| 3×3 | 10.28 | 13.42 | top 8.3% | 4,561 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.55 | 4.17 | top 9.4% | 3,709 / 40,951 | |
| 5×5 | 1:23.79 | 1:34.06 | top 22.2% | 1,715 / 9,401 | |
| 4×4 | 48.21 | 58.13 | top 22.4% | 3,392 / 19,072 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.49 | 9.87 | top 23.7% | 6,448 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 25.29 | 34.27 | top 35.0% | 4,620 / 15,683 | |
| Megaminx | 1:48.82 | 1:57.35 | top 39.7% | 2,866 / 7,841 | |
| Skewb | 8.59 | 12.63 | top 45.6% | 8,055 / 18,907 | |
| Clock | 17.38 | 21.42 | top 56.7% | 4,720 / 8,927 | |
| 6×6 | 3:36.04 | — | early days — 1 solve | 2,177 / 4,196 | |
| 7×7 | 6:40.67 | — | early days — 1 solve | 2,385 / 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
- 25 Jul 2026Five personal bests in one day at SPAMTown IV MN 2026.
- 22 May 2026Six personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2026.
- 23 Mar 2025Four personal bests in one day at Minnesota Newcomer Sunday 2025.
- 30 Sep 2023First sub-15 3×3: 12.32 at North Woods 2023.
- 26 Jan 2019First competition: North Star Cubing Challenge 2019. A 19.93 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Big Brain Minnesota 2026 · 15 Aug 2026
- SPAMTown IV MN 2026 · 25 Jul 2026 — 5 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2026 · 22 May 2026 — 6 personal bests set
- Eau Clock Wisconsin 2026 · 14 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Minnesota Newcomer Sunday 2025 · 23 Mar 2025 — 4 personal bests set
- Eau Claire 2024 · 27 Apr 2024
- NxN Minnesota 2023 · 9 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- North Woods 2023 · 30 Sep 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- North Star Cubing Challenge 2019 · 26 Jan 2019
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.
- Kaius Young — met in 54 rounds, never finished ahead
- Nathan Rahn — met in 49 rounds, finished ahead once
- Joseph Ong — met in 45 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
Targets move as he improves.