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Maverick Pearson

2×2 · top 1.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2014 · 2014PEAR02

Maverick Pearson has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.34, set at Cape Town Summer 2022, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in South Africa. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 58 competitions since October 2014, he has put 2,744 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.03 in October 2014 to 7.41, a 59% improvement. Maverick has entered 58 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.5% of 186,767 all-time
1.34
signature single · Cape Town Summer 2022
2,744
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
2×21.343.01
top 1.5%11 / 1,510
3×37.419.91
top 1.9%17 / 2,164
Pyraminx3.205.23
top 4.3%23 / 946
4×432.7538.07
top 4.8%15 / 491
3×3 one-handed13.4116.84
top 5.1%14 / 467
Clock6.578.90
top 9.4%13 / 148
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves33.67
top 12.2%6 / 53
Megaminx1:05.341:10.97
top 12.9%17 / 266
5×51:12.851:17.05
top 13.7%17 / 221
Skewb4.436.43
top 13.9%54 / 438
3×3 blindfolded1:17.601:38.56
top 18.7%11 / 53
6×62:27.812:40.20
top 24.5%16 / 84
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 7 cubes · 38:21—
top 26.1%5 / 27
7×73:58.684:06.27
top 30.2%15 / 69
Square-121.1130.77
top 30.4%33 / 118
4×4 blindfolded11:09.00—
top 62.8%10 / 15

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

Antelope Valley Fall 2014: 18.03Cape Town 2014: 14.88Cape Town 2015: 14.15Cape Town Open 2015: 11.56Cape Town 2016: 11.20Nisei Week 2017: 10.75Music City Fall 2017: 10.74Speedcubes Cape Town 2018: 10.43Arnold Classic Africa 2018: 9.40Speedcubes Cape Town 2019: 9.65Arnold Classic Africa 2019: 9.86Cape Town Spring 2019: 8.93Cape Town Summer 2020: 7.41Cape Town Summer 2022: 10.26Gauteng Autumn 2022: 12.11Speedcubes Cape Town 2022: 9.66Arnold Classic Africa 2022: 9.00Green School Paarl Open 2022: 10.12Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 8.97Mimosa Mall Master Cubers 2022: 9.13CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023: 10.06CubingZA Cape Cubes Autumn 2023: 9.92Dolphin Coast Autumn 2023: 10.46CubingZA National Championship 2023: 9.19CubingZA Cape Cubes Spring 2023: 8.20Mimosa Mall Master Cubers 2023: 8.29CubingZA Cape Cubes Challenge 2023: 8.58Mid Summer Madness Cape Town 2024: 9.77Harvest Moon Cape Town 2024: 9.96Eversdal Autumn 2024: 10.48Durban Winter 2024: 7.66Qualifying in Kirstenhof 2024: 7.45Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 9.46Beginner and Blind Cape Town 2024: 8.83Speedcubes Bloemfontein 2024: 8.58Cape Cubes Challenge 2024: 9.28Newcomers Cape Cube-Fest 2025: 8.29Mega Mania Cape Town 2025: 9.45CubingZA Nationals 2025: 8.99Zambia Cubing Open 2025: 9.82Cape Cubes Winter 2025: 9.42Cape Cubes Spring 2025: 8.60Alexandria Open 2025: 7.42Cubestuff Grand Challenge Cape Town 2025: 7.42Cubing in the Cape Q1 2026: 9.32Cubing Bash Bloemfontein 2026: 8.88Eversdal Autumn Cape Town 2026: 9.81Cubing in the Cape Q3 2026: 9.677.4118.034 Oct 201418 Jul 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 0.34 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.