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Mark Tysvaer

3×3 · top 5.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2024 · 2024TYSV01

Mark Tysvaer has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.17, set at PBs in Palisades Spring 2026, puts him in the top 5.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,948th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since June 2024, he has put 219 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.41 in January 2025 to 9.17, a 32% improvement. Mark has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.17
signature single · PBs in Palisades Spring 2026
219
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.1711.01
top 5.3%2,948 / 59,724
2×22.424.29
top 8.1%3,211 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.257.42
top 14.8%3,869 / 28,708
Skewb5.077.31
top 18.7%2,975 / 18,907
Megaminx1:15.271:22.62
top 18.9%1,279 / 7,841
4×446.6250.04
top 20.3%3,090 / 19,072
Clock10.3211.96
top 26.7%2,054 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed33.5340.49
top 54.5%7,555 / 15,683
Square-11:01.87
early days — 2 solves5,679 / 6,743

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

Kisco Cubing 2025: 13.41Hudson Valley Winter 2025: 14.04PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 11.50American Dream NJ 2025: 11.36Connecticut Championship 2025: 10.18Wide Moves & Waterslides CT 2026: 10.65PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 9.179.1714.044 Jan 20254 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.