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Joshua Carey

2×2 · top 0.025% of 189,179 all-time · competing since June 2023 · 2023CARE06

Joshua Carey has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.57, set at Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025, puts him in the top 0.025% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in the United States. Until March 2016, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since June 2023, he has put 721 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.20 in June 2023 to 7.72, a 65% improvement. Joshua has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.025% of 189,179 all-time
0.57
signature single · Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025
721
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.572.41
top 0.025%9 / 41,674
3×37.729.15
top 2.3%1,402 / 60,666
Pyraminx2.815.11
top 3.0%824 / 29,168
Clock5.085.86
top 4.6%375 / 9,172
3×3 one-handed13.9217.76
top 6.0%852 / 15,900
Skewb4.137.45
top 11.9%1,867 / 19,164
4×440.0148.60
top 12.2%1,835 / 19,354
Square-120.0024.90
top 28.1%1,864 / 6,846
Megaminx1:30.811:41.43
top 28.8%2,039 / 8,026
5×51:45.211:58.20
top 39.4%3,214 / 9,537
6×63:59.974:23.87
top 65.6%2,575 / 4,262

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

CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023: 22.20North Star Cubing Challenge 2024: 12.64Algs in Ankeny 2024: 10.30CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2024: 11.51Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 10.01Cubing at Iowa State 2025: 9.50Algs in Ankeny 2025: 10.75Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.78CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025: 8.59Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025: 8.58Iowa Winter Cooldown 2026: 8.37CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2026: 7.77Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.27Iowa Championship 2026: 7.72Cubetcha MN 2026: 8.017.7222.202 Jun 202310 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.72 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,497 people have one; it is 0.81 away.

Targets move as he improves.