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Joe Kucala

Pyraminx · top 20.2% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2022 · 2022KUCA01

Joe Kucala has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 6.02, set at Minnesota Newcomer Saturday 2025, puts him in the top 20.2% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,404th in the United States. Across 85 competitions since August 2022, he has put 1,576 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:06.48 in May 2023 to 29.61, a 55% improvement. Joe has entered 85 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 20.2% of 129,321 all-time
6.02
signature single · Minnesota Newcomer Saturday 2025
1,576
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx6.029.52
top 20.2%5,404 / 28,708
Clock9.0912.40
top 20.4%1,574 / 8,927
Skewb5.7112.52
top 23.5%3,786 / 18,907
2×25.078.33
top 40.2%16,147 / 40,951
3×329.6134.94
top 61.8%36,878 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed1:13.501:30.82
top 90.4%13,830 / 15,683
4×42:55.40—
top 96.0%18,437 / 19,072

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

FargoDome 2023: 1:06.48Door County Cube Challenge 2023: 50.28Minnesota Cube Melt 2023: 1:03.46CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 51.81Winnipeg Open 2023: 47.35Minnesota Meetup II Thursday 2023: 58.56OH in a Madison Ballroom 2023: 58.53Sioux Falls Saturday 2023: 58.63Sioux City Sunday 2023: 57.39Minnesota Cube Day 2023: 55.05North Woods 2023: 43.02CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 45.27Cubetcha 2023: 46.97CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 45.16SPAMtown II 2023: 44.04Race the Clock Minnesota 2023: 36.92Minnesota Meetup III Thursday 2024: 37.61North Star Cubing Challenge 2024: 43.52Elite in Eagan 2024: 48.84Minnesota Newcomer Sunday 2024: 37.70Black Hills Cube Rush 2024: 38.83New Ulm Reboot 2024: 48.28Eau Claire 2024: 42.26Minnesota Cube Melt 2024: 42.58CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2024: 35.07Minnesota Warm Up 2024: 39.43Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 37.00Minnesota Meetup IV Monday 2024: 48.81Rosemount Side Events 2024: 45.24Grand Forks 2024: 45.61Cubing on Lake Superior 2024: 46.00CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 39.64Cubetcha MN 2024: 40.52SPAMtown III MN 2024: 34.64Minnesota Championship 2024: 38.30Cubes Canes & Joy Vegas 2024: 36.95Baton Rouge Winter B 2025: 40.74North Star Cubing Challenge MN 2025: 39.72Honolulu Hoʻoilo 2025: 35.46Hawaiʻi Big Island Winter 2025: 33.89Solve La Crosse 2025: 41.37Racing in Rosemount 2025: 41.95Minnesota Newcomer Saturday 2025: 30.20St. Ansgar 2025: 35.05Minnesota Cube Melt 2025: 36.15Moorhead Madness 2025: 34.63Algs in Ankeny 2025: 36.93Minnesota Slice 2025: 31.91Warm Up Seattle 2025: 32.51Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 37.62CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2025: 41.56CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025: 36.98Clock on the Madison Rocks 2025: 36.80Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025: 31.12Grand Forks 2025: 29.61Cubetcha MN 2025: 39.59Gulf Shores 2025: 31.63Cubing on the Green MN 2025: 36.27Minnesota Championship 2025: 31.93Race the Clock MN 2025: 35.41The Bahamas Cube Challenge 2026: 32.98North Star Cubing Challenge MN 2026: 36.50Eau Clock Wisconsin 2026: 36.84Cube Against Cancer Minnesota 2026: 31.67St. Ansgar 2026: 34.79Minnesota Cube Melt 2026: 31.07CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2026: 40.80Fast in Fargo 2026: 35.80CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 40.73Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 36.12SPAMTown IV MN 2026: 33.58State Hunting Calls for Sioux Falls 2026: 36.1429.611:06.486 May 20235 Sep 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-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-8 Clock single — 4,877 people have one; it is 1.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.