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Jonathan Tilahun

3×3 · top 0.74% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014TILA01

Jonathan Tilahun has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.37, set at Vanderbilt Winter 2025, puts him in the top 0.74% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 481st in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 67 competitions since August 2014, he has put 2,490 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.00 in October 2014 to 6.37, a 66% improvement. Jonathan has entered 67 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.74% of 284,439 all-time
6.37
signature single · Vanderbilt Winter 2025
2,490
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.378.00
top 0.74%481 / 59,724
Pyraminx1.833.20
top 0.87%249 / 28,708
2×21.622.61
top 2.7%1,049 / 40,951
Skewb2.455.08
top 2.7%401 / 18,907
4×430.0933.80
top 2.9%474 / 19,072
5×51:01.511:12.03
top 6.4%516 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed14.2616.97
top 6.6%907 / 15,683
6×61:53.092:08.31
top 8.4%288 / 4,196
Megaminx59.611:09.55
top 9.8%674 / 7,841
Square-112.7119.41
top 11.3%786 / 6,743
7×74:14.824:20.10
top 36.0%1,010 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves42.67
top 40.9%879 / 2,040
Clock17.7922.94
top 58.1%4,851 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded4:15.36—
early days — 1 solve1,484 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 19:30—
early days — 1 solve557 / 731

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

Virginia Open Fall 2014: 19.00Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 19.45River Hill Winter 2015: 11.13Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 14.64Virginia Open Spring 2015: 14.91Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2015: 15.20Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 14.40Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 15.61Virginia Open Fall 2015: 14.33River Hill Fall 2015: 12.29Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 11.52Virginia Open Spring 2016: 10.84ODU Big Blue Spring 2016: 9.81Severna Park Spring 2016: 10.21Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 10.81Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 10.23Severna Park Fall 2016: 9.60TJHSST Fall 2016: 9.36Virginia Open Winter 2017: 9.07ODU Big Blue Spring 2017: 10.22Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 9.82NovaCube 2017: 8.97EZ Cubes Spring 2017: 7.66Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 8.69CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.35Severna Park Summer 2017: 8.60Rally In The Valley 2017: 8.93ODU Big Blue Fall 2017: 8.39Maryland 2017: 9.26TJHSST Fall 2017: 9.18Severna Park Showdown 2017: 7.43Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 8.59NovaCube 2018: 8.34River Hill Spring 2018: 8.38RVA Spring 2018: 8.47Tea Time Spring 2018: 8.64Rally In The Valley 2018: 7.91Maryland 2018: 8.68Fredericksburg Summer Open 2018: 7.13Pennsylvania 2018: 9.01Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 9.20RVAutumn 2018: 7.51TJHSST Fall 2018: 8.00Northern Neck Winter 2019: 9.28CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 8.49Virginia Qualifier 2019: 7.00Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 7.30Rally in the Valley 2019: 7.88CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 7.56MLWGS Winter 2020: 8.07Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 7.39Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 8.05Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 8.05TJHSST Spring 2023: 6.56CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.63TN Speedsolving Winter 2024: 7.63Vanderbilt Spring 2024: 7.49Cubing at Carson 2024: 8.06Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 6.40Vanderbilt Winter 2025: 6.37TJHSST Spring 2025: 7.52Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.08Virginia Championship 2025: 7.17Vanderbilt Winter 2026: 7.63Welcome to Washington D.C. 2026: 6.99Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.026.3719.4518 Oct 20142 Jul 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 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.