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Josh Flagg

2×2 · top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2011 · 2011FLAG01

Josh Flagg has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.29, set at Quabbin Spring 2026, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 553rd in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since March 2011, he has put 1,207 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.56 in March 2011 to 7.30, a 68% improvement. Josh has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time
1.29
signature single · Quabbin Spring 2026
1,207
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.293.31
top 1.3%553 / 40,951
3×37.309.41
top 1.7%1,026 / 59,724
4×430.9937.43
top 3.5%551 / 19,072
5×51:00.961:08.50
top 6.0%491 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed17.6221.40
top 14.1%1,831 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.609.43
top 17.1%4,536 / 28,708
Megaminx1:26.021:31.38
top 25.6%1,765 / 7,841
6×62:37.592:45.86
top 29.5%1,037 / 4,196

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

MIT Spring 2011: 22.56Harvard Spring 2011: 19.38Cornell Spring 2011: 17.61Captain's Cove competition 2011: 21.28River Hill Spring 2011: 17.09Yale Fall 2011: 15.46Harvard Fall 2011: 14.68Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 12.96MIT Fall 2011: 12.71MIT Spring 2012: 12.96Newark Head to Head 2012: 13.09Harvard Spring 2012: 13.15Cornell Open Spring 2012: 12.27Yale Spring 2012: 12.31Brown Cubing Day 2012: 12.69St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 12.33Yale Fall 2012: 11.55Harvard Fall 2012: 11.61MIT Fall 2012: 10.90Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 11.46Harvard Spring 2013: 11.05MIT Spring 2013: 12.71World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 9.18Harvard Fall 2013: 9.44Yale Fall 2013: 10.53Lexington Fall 2013: 8.40CCFC Winter 2014: 11.03Williams Winter 2014: 9.31Lexington Spring 2014: 9.60US Nationals 2014: 10.61Lexington Spring 2015: 10.20MIT Spring 2015: 9.64Maine Cubing 2016: 8.85Northeastern Spring 2016: 10.01MIT Fall 2018: 9.30MIT Winter 2020: 9.72Cubing with the Viking 2020: 8.91Cubing Bulls 2022: 7.77Zephyr Cube Bash 2025: 8.36Loon Cubikon NH 2025: 8.32Cube Against Cancer Boston 2026: 9.10Fitchburg Spring 2026: 8.00Quabbin Spring 2026: 8.36Saint John's Summer 2026: 7.40Hampton Beach Summer 2026: 7.30Brookline Favorites IV 2026: 8.167.3022.565 Mar 201129 Aug 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 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.