People · United States
Malikai Bass
3×3 · top 8.3% of 288,433 all-time · competing since September 2024 · 2024BASS05
Malikai Bass has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.28, set at Summer Scramble UW 2026, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,645th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since September 2024, he has put 287 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.81 in September 2024 to 10.28, a 35% improvement. Malikai has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.28 | 13.88 | top 8.3% | 4,645 / 60,666 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.77 | 9.24 | top 11.8% | 3,118 / 29,168 | |
| 2×2 | 3.64 | 5.47 | top 22.0% | 8,729 / 41,674 | |
| Skewb | 7.80 | 13.08 | top 39.8% | 6,960 / 19,164 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.64 | 33.77 | top 41.1% | 5,577 / 15,900 | |
| 4×4 | 1:06.28 | 1:14.68 | top 43.2% | 7,212 / 19,354 | |
| Megaminx | 3:14.39 | — | early days — 2 solves | 6,378 / 8,026 | |
| 5×5 | 4:08.91 | — | early days — 2 solves | 8,936 / 9,537 | |
| Clock | 45.20 | — | early days — 1 solve | 8,802 / 9,172 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Apr 2026Three personal bests in one day at North Sound Spring 2026.
- 18 Jan 2025First sub-15 3×3: 14.22 at Tacoma Winter 2025.
- 7 Sep 2024First competition: Kent Summer 2024. A 15.81 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Tacoma Fall 2026 · 10 Oct 2026
- Summer Scramble UW 2026 · 15 Aug 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Seattle Summer 2026 · 11 Jul 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Kent Spring 2026 · 30 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Dawgs at Denny UW 2026 · 9 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Spring 2026 · 18 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- North Sound Spring 2026 · 4 Apr 2026 — 3 personal bests set
- Seattle Cube Cascade UW 2025 · 4 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025 · 13 Sep 2025
- Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Warm Up Seattle 2025 · 28 Jun 2025
- Central Washington Evens 2025 · 12 Apr 2025
- Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025 · 29 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Bellevue Squan Fest January 2025 · 25 Jan 2025
- Tacoma Winter 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Kirkland Pyra Fest 2024 · 14 Dec 2024
- Bellevue Squan Fest 2024 · 2 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Quiet Seattle October 2024 · 26 Oct 2024
- Kent Summer 2024 · 7 Sep 2024
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.
- Saharsh Sai Vontela — met in 58 rounds, never finished ahead
- Rex Gilmore — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Vikram Haldar — met in 55 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
- A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.77 away.
Targets move as he improves.