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Micah Willenburgh

2×2 · top 0.7% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022WILL19

Micah Willenburgh has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.07, set at Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025, puts him in the top 0.7% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in South Africa. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since May 2022, he has put 1,214 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.52 in May 2022 to 8.99, a 54% improvement. Micah has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.7% of 186,767 all-time
1.07
signature single · Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025
1,214
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
2×21.073.05
top 0.7%4 / 1,510
Skewb1.713.93
top 0.75%4 / 438
Pyraminx1.784.11
top 0.8%3 / 946
3×38.9911.43
top 4.8%45 / 2,164
3×3 one-handed16.0722.93
top 10.4%31 / 467
4×442.8251.46
top 15.5%43 / 491
Square-116.4824.68
top 19.7%22 / 118
Megaminx1:17.431:26.29
top 20.2%30 / 266
Clock9.7711.46
top 24.0%29 / 148
5×51:32.161:42.64
top 29.1%44 / 221
6×63:29.473:41.95
top 54.5%33 / 84
7×77:02.457:31.88
top 80.6%49 / 69

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

Speedcubes Cape Town 2022: 19.52Green School Paarl Open 2022: 16.88Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 17.00CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023: 14.32CubingZA Cape Cubes Autumn 2023: 14.19CubingZA Cape Cubes Challenge 2023: 13.49Mid Summer Madness Cape Town 2024: 12.33Harvest Moon Cape Town 2024: 12.44Eversdal Autumn 2024: 8.99Qualifying in Kirstenhof 2024: 11.45Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 10.30Beginner and Blind Cape Town 2024: 10.76Cape Cubes Challenge 2024: 11.70Puzzles in Pinehurst 2025: 9.66Newcomers Cape Cube-Fest 2025: 9.80Mother City Cubing Cape Town 2025: 10.27Cape Cubes Winter 2025: 10.68Cape Cubes Spring 2025: 9.958.9919.5229 May 202218 Oct 2025

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 0.07 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.