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Luke Tycksen

4×4 · top 0.051% of 83,917 all-time · competing since May 2012 · 2012TYCK01

Luke Tycksen has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 20.08, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.051% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8th in the United States. Until June 2017, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 63 competitions since May 2012, he has put 3,983 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.86 in May 2012 to 4.68, an 81% improvement. Luke has entered 63 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.051% of 83,917 all-time
20.08
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025
3,983
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×420.0824.95
top 0.051%8 / 19,072
3×34.686.47
top 0.065%39 / 59,724
5×541.3548.22
top 0.26%23 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed8.419.87
top 0.29%47 / 15,683
6×61:21.021:28.62
top 0.71%30 / 4,196
Megaminx38.6745.47
top 1.3%84 / 7,841
7×72:12.882:24.39
top 1.5%41 / 3,184
2×21.422.45
top 1.8%721 / 40,951
Skewb2.504.04
top 2.9%433 / 18,907
Pyraminx2.785.65
top 2.9%785 / 28,708
Square-18.7011.63
top 4.0%296 / 6,743
Clock7.998.87
top 15.2%1,161 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves36.67
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded2:45.92—
top 48.3%1,037 / 2,092

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

Couve Cubing 2012: 24.86Cube Kingdom 2013: 13.26Coastal Cubing 2013: 11.09Mid-Columbia Cubing Competition 2013: 10.78Cube Kingdom II 2014: 9.80Rose City Cubing Competition 2015: 8.12Cubes4Speed MOX Summer 2015: 7.95Keep Portland Weird 2015: 9.07Atomic Cubing 2016: 8.01Atomic Cubing Summer 2016: 7.87US Nationals 2016: 7.77Keep Portland Weird 2017: 7.55Atomic Fools 2017: 7.06Northwest Championships 2017: 7.71Spokane Valley Summer 2017: 7.33Puget Sound Fall 2017: 7.25Atomic Cubing Fall 2017: 5.55Spokane Winter 2018: 6.78Chiawana Cubing 2018: 6.77Atomic Cubing Spring 2018: 6.65Puget Sound Spring 2018: 6.95Yakima Valley Cubing 2018: 6.66SnoCo Summer 2018: 6.88CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 5.72CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2018: 7.16Missoula 2018: 5.75Yakima Valley Cubing Fall 2018: 6.80Atomic Cubing Fall 2018: 5.75Puget Sound NxNxN 2018: 7.11Oregon State 2019: 5.76Atomic Cubing Spring 2019: 6.80Yakima Valley Cubing Spring 2019: 6.63CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2019: 5.90CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 6.10Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019: 6.74Spokane Summer 2019: 5.69Yakima Side Events 2019: 7.05Boise 2019: 6.18SnoCo Fall 2019: 5.86Washington Championship 2020: 5.71Central Washington Winter 2020: 6.44Missoula 2021: 6.25Let's Try Again Spokane 2022: 6.03PLU NxN 2022: 6.56Central Washington Spring 2022: 5.99Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 5.62Oregon Championship 2022: 5.35Grizz Cubing 2022: 5.55Washington Championship 2023: 5.89Grizzly Awakening 2023: 4.68Canadian Championship 2023: 5.59CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.04Grizzly Hibernating 2023: 5.49Back To Tri-Cities 2024: 5.82Grizzly Awakening 2024: 6.50PortlaNxNd 2024: 6.29CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 5.56Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 5.44Warm Up Seattle 2025: 4.94Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 5.45Tri Cities Spring 2026: 6.064.6824.865 May 201211 Apr 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-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.68 away.

Targets move as he improves.