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Joe Zaiden

2×2 · top 75.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2024 · 2024ZAID06

Joe Zaiden has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 9.52, set at Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025, puts him in the top 75.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 31,467th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since November 2024, he has put 33 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 22% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 53.56 in November 2024 to 47.03, a 12% improvement. Joe has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 75.9% of 186,767 all-time
9.52
signature single · Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025
33
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×29.5225.03
top 75.9%31,467 / 40,951
3×347.0355.79
top 83.7%51,342 / 59,724

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

Corinth Comic Con Cubing 2024: 53.56Mississippi Championship 2025: 57.92Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025: 54.94Spookin' on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 47.97Gulf Shores 2025: 52.75Coosa Cubing Clash 2025: 47.0347.0357.922 Nov 20246 Dec 2025

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-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 1.52 away.
  • A sub-40 3×3 single — 218,634 people have one; it is 7.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.