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Marlo Petrola

2×2 · top 3.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022PETR17

Marlo Petrola has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.82, set at Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,444th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since November 2022, he has put 963 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 37.24 in November 2022 to 9.03, a 76% improvement. Marlo has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.7% of 186,767 all-time
1.82
signature single · Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025
963
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.823.21
top 3.7%1,444 / 40,951
3×39.0311.51
top 4.9%2,758 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.415.17
top 5.1%1,333 / 28,708
Skewb3.165.35
top 5.8%890 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed15.6919.90
top 9.5%1,265 / 15,683
Megaminx1:02.211:11.66
top 11.2%757 / 7,841
Clock7.589.30
top 13.2%1,013 / 8,927
4×444.5248.69
top 17.7%2,683 / 19,072
5×51:19.061:24.32
top 18.4%1,418 / 9,401
6×62:27.732:33.95
top 24.4%872 / 4,196
Square-118.7124.34
top 25.0%1,660 / 6,743
7×73:55.964:13.58
top 29.1%815 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves45.67
early days — 3 solves1,310 / 2,040

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

SnoCo Veteran's Weekend A 2022: 37.24Lynnwood Winter 2023: 22.29Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 20.86Central Washington Odds 2023: 22.72Bothell Spring Open 2023: 24.92Washington Championship 2023: 25.36Lakewood Spring 2023: 17.07Kent Spring 2023: 18.40Mill Creek 2023: 19.47SnoCo Has Too Much 3x3 2023: 16.02Kent Summer 2023: 17.10Lucky Lynnwood 2023: 13.19Lakewood Fall 2023: 15.81SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 14.44Kent Spring 2024: 13.30Bellingham Spring 2024: 13.84Tacoma Summer 2024: 12.60Kent Summer 2024: 12.95Bellingham Fall 2024: 11.00Lakewood Fall 2024: 11.49Chill Cubing in Chilliwack 2025: 11.52Eugene Cubing Spring 2025: 12.17Worlds Warmup Woodinville 2025: 11.35Warm Up Seattle 2025: 10.16Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.03North Sound Spring 2026: 10.21Seattle Summer 2026: 9.93BC Championship 2026: 10.11Northwest Championship 2026: 9.979.0337.2411 Nov 202221 Aug 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.