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Josh Sanderson

2×2 · top 0.31% of 189,179 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022SAND01

Josh Sanderson has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.86, set at Ocean State Cubikon 2024, puts him in the top 0.31% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 139th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 48 competitions since January 2022, he has put 1,889 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.44 in January 2022 to 6.71, a 77% improvement. Josh has entered 48 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.31% of 189,179 all-time
0.86
signature single · Ocean State Cubikon 2024
1,889
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
2×20.861.67
top 0.31%139 / 41,674
Pyraminx1.813.92
top 0.84%245 / 29,168
3×36.718.92
top 1.0%666 / 60,666
3×3 one-handed13.5118.63
top 5.3%762 / 15,900
4×434.7639.68
top 6.6%1,025 / 19,354
Skewb3.785.59
top 9.5%1,475 / 19,164
5×51:07.011:17.99
top 9.8%772 / 9,537
Clock6.839.19
top 10.3%813 / 9,172
Square-113.4821.70
top 13.0%906 / 6,846
Megaminx1:11.381:17.79
top 16.5%1,145 / 8,026
6×62:28.122:40.57
top 24.7%890 / 4,262
3×3 blindfolded1:40.74—
top 26.8%565 / 2,128
7×74:11.594:37.14
top 34.9%988 / 3,236
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves39.00
top 37.3%822 / 2,059
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 8:20—
early days — 1 solve480 / 740

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

Empire State Winter B 2022: 29.44Deerfield Winter 2022: 20.33Mum's the Word 2023: 19.55Empire State Winter Warmup 2023: 17.32Garden City Winter 2023: 13.70Northampton Winter A 2023: 16.63Cubing in Cambridge 2023: 17.83Cape Cod 2023: 14.58Connecticut Spring 2023: 13.33CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 14.35CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 13.20Northampton Fall A 2023: 12.63Hudson Valley 2023: 11.81Troy Story 2024: 11.37Cardinal Cube Day 2024: 10.91Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 11.86North Jersey Speedsolving A 2024: 11.10Salem Cubikon 2024: 13.52Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.50CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 11.69Ocean State Cubikon 2024: 10.92M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 9.51Amherst Fall 2024: 9.71A Saturday in Ashfield 2024: 9.09Cubing at the Course CT 2025: 10.24Fall River Cubikon 2025: 9.39The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 11.91Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 9.13Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.70Connecticut Championship 2025: 10.48CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 8.17Fitchburg Fall 2025: 9.48Westport Fall 2025: 8.43Cubing in Westerly RI 2025: 9.76New Hampshire Championship 2025: 9.65Ipswich Fall 2025: 9.05Wide Moves & Waterslides CT 2026: 9.31Berkshires Cube Day at BART 2026: 9.76Brown Cubing Day 2026: 9.78Fitchburg Spring 2026: 6.71Westport Summer 2026: 9.02Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.85Woonsocket Cubikon 2026: 8.38Brookline Favorites IV 2026: 8.02CubingUSA New England Championship 2026: 7.426.7129.4416 Jan 202216 Oct 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.

  • Ethan Zhuang — met in 266 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
  • Curtis Chai — met in 257 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Ryan Durette — met in 236 rounds, finished ahead 90 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.