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Jay Pharma
Pyraminx · top 0.3% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022PHAR01
Jay Pharma has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.38, set at Cubing at the Course CT 2025, puts him in the top 0.3% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 102nd in the United States. Until March 2013, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since July 2022, he has put 1,602 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.42 in July 2022 to 6.70, a 54% improvement. Jay has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 1.38 | 2.54 | top 0.3% | 102 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 0.93 | 1.57 | top 0.43% | 182 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 6.70 | 8.16 | top 1.0% | 647 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 2.75 | 4.72 | top 3.8% | 600 / 18,907 | |
| 4×4 | 34.33 | 37.51 | top 6.1% | 948 / 19,072 | |
| Clock | 6.04 | 6.80 | top 7.4% | 580 / 8,927 | |
| Square-1 | 12.16 | 17.12 | top 10.2% | 722 / 6,743 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.84 | 19.95 | top 12.2% | 1,582 / 15,683 | |
| Megaminx | 1:25.53 | 1:39.07 | top 25.3% | 1,738 / 7,841 | |
| 5×5 | 1:28.06 | 1:34.98 | top 25.7% | 2,007 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 14 Jul 2024Four personal bests in one day at Saratoga Springs Summer 2024.
- 17 Jun 2023Six personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023.
- 11 Mar 2023Three personal bests in one day at Niskayuna Nimble Fingers 2023.
- 21 Jan 2023Four personal bests in one day at Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023.
- 3 Dec 2022Four personal bests in one day at New York Yopen 2022.
- 27 Aug 2022First sub-10 3×3: 9.71 at Westport Summer 2022.
Competitions
- Westport Icebreaker 2026 · 3 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- New York Championship 2025 · 12 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Brookhaven Summer 2025 · 23 Aug 2025
- Mystic Cubikon 2025 · 20 Jul 2025
- Connecticut Spring 2025 · 10 May 2025
- American Dream NJ 2025 · 4 May 2025
- Great Peconic Bay 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing at the Course CT 2025 · 4 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Long Island Winter Solstice 2024 · 21 Dec 2024
- Flushing Glow AM 2024 · 7 Dec 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Flushing Open AM 2024 · 24 Nov 2024
- Penn Cube Day Fall 2024 · 2 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2024 · 23 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Saratoga Springs Summer 2024 · 14 Jul 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024 · 12 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Edgemont Cubing 2024 · 13 Apr 2024
- Ridgefield Spring 2024 · 6 Apr 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cardinal Cube Day 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- PBs in Palisades 2024 · 17 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024 · 10 Feb 2024
- Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024 · 14 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Elm City Kubikon 2023 · 24 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Mystic Cubikon 2023 · 20 Aug 2023
- Westport Warmup 2023 · 15 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023 · 17 Jun 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023 · 21 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- PBs in Palisades 2023 · 15 Apr 2023
- Niskayuna Nimble Fingers 2023 · 11 Mar 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Northampton Winter A 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- West Chester Fall 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- New York Yopen 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Westport Summer 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- East Brunswick Open 2022 · 30 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Owings Mills Summer 2022 · 16 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- New York Championship 2022 · 2 Jul 2022 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Evan Liu — met in 178 rounds, finished ahead 76 times
- Curtis Chai — met in 150 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
- Ayden Dincher — met in 145 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.38 away.
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
Targets move as he improves.