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Joel Aber

Pyraminx · top 0.99% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021ABER01

Joel Aber has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.91, set at Cincinnati Open 2025, puts him in the top 0.99% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 276th in the United States. Until April 2012, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 58 competitions since November 2021, he has put 1,857 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.92 in November 2021 to 7.76, a 40% improvement. Joel has entered 58 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.99% of 129,321 all-time
1.91
signature single · Cincinnati Open 2025
1,857
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx1.913.51
top 0.99%276 / 28,708
3×37.769.57
top 2.4%1,390 / 59,724
2×21.873.26
top 4.0%1,565 / 40,951
Skewb3.438.28
top 7.3%1,129 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed15.8221.18
top 9.8%1,301 / 15,683
4×445.2955.53
top 18.7%2,824 / 19,072
Clock8.9911.27
top 19.9%1,527 / 8,927
5×51:55.912:09.52
top 46.6%3,872 / 9,401
Megaminx2:34.182:59.05
top 63.2%4,802 / 7,841
6×63:56.015:09.10
top 64.1%2,479 / 4,196
Square-11:07.77—
top 88.0%5,929 / 6,743
7×78:13.39—
early days — 2 solves2,895 / 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

Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 12.92Bulldog Winter 2022: 13.15Gem City 2022: 12.64Bulldog Winter 2.0 2022: 12.14Ohio State Expo Open 2022: 11.79Bulldog Spring 2022: 10.64Country Roads Huntington 2022: 12.16Lake Erie Showdown 2022: 10.27Howland Returns 2022: 11.01Ohio Valley Open 2022: 10.63Lake Erie Cubing Clash 2022: 10.24Crystal City Fall 2022: 10.07Imagination Station B 2023: 10.04Miami in an Ohio Oxford 2023: 9.72Ohio State Spring Scarlet 2023: 9.45Michigan Speedcubing Spring 2023: 8.88Ohio State Spring First-Timers B 2023: 9.00Bulldog Spring 2023: 9.45Flag City Summer 2023: 9.82Mason Cube Challenge 2023: 10.02Cubing 4 a Cure Farmington 2023: 8.55Cubing by the Kings 2023: 9.88Bulldog Fall 2023: 8.91Ohio State Fall 2023: 9.12CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 10.43Swoop in Again Oxford 2023: 8.74Ohio State Winter 2023: 10.20Solve 4 Justice Southfield 2024: 8.26BHT Pyraminx Bash 2024: 8.97Michigan Mini 15 2024: 9.38Bulldog Winter 2024: 7.86Solar Eclipse in Sycamore 2024: 9.60Trojan Spring 2024: 8.41Green Spring 2024: 8.58Barberton Mini 1 2024: 10.10Green Summer 2024: 9.38Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.96Eastwood Mall Summer 2024: 9.16Barberton Mini 5 2024: 8.74Imagination Station B 2025: 8.83Barberton Mini 7 2025: 7.76Green Winter 2025: 8.82Many Cubes in Mansfield 2025: 9.33Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.37Ohio State Summer 2025: 8.41Cincinnati Open 2025: 9.20Ohio State Fall 2025: 9.20Kids America Christmas Clash OH 2025: 9.06Ohio Championship 2025: 8.63Imagination Station B 2026: 8.49Return to Green OH 2026: 9.407.7613.1520 Nov 202129 Mar 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-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.