People · United States
Michael Johnson
3×3 · top 32.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2023 · 2023JOHN07
Michael Johnson has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.33, set at North Carolina Championship 2025, puts him in the top 32.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17,732nd in the United States. Across 26 competitions since February 2023, he has put 301 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.42 in February 2023 to 17.33, a 34% improvement. Michael has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% 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 | 17.33 | 21.33 | top 32.0% | 17,732 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 1:02.55 | 1:13.97 | top 39.2% | 6,370 / 19,072 | |
| 5×5 | 1:46.40 | 2:01.53 | top 40.2% | 3,242 / 9,401 | |
| 2×2 | 7.39 | 14.01 | top 63.5% | 26,157 / 40,951 | |
| 6×6 | 4:03.02 | 4:38.25 | top 66.4% | 2,579 / 4,196 | |
| 7×7 | 6:54.32 | 7:11.83 | top 79.2% | 2,481 / 3,184 |
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 Feb 2024First sub-20 3×3: 19.94 at Virginia Still-Open Winter 2024.
- 4 Nov 2023Three personal bests in one day at North Carolina Championship 2023.
- 5 Feb 2023First competition: Wolfpack Winter 2023. A 26.42 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 · 2 Jul 2026
- Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026 · 27 Jun 2026
- Apex Algs Again 2026 · 23 May 2026
- Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026 · 2 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- TJHSST Winter 2026 · 15 Mar 2026
- NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026 · 8 Mar 2026
- NxN Nonsense NC 2026 · 22 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Wrightsville Beach Bash 2026 · 11 Jan 2026 — 1 personal best set
- NCSU Wolfpack 2025 · 19 Oct 2025
- Cubing in Westerly RI 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Cajun Cube Clash 2025 · 27 Sep 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Virginia Championship 2025 · 16 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025 · 21 Jun 2025
- North Carolina Championship 2025 · 24 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Charlotte Winter 2025 · 25 Jan 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- NCSU Wolfpack 2024 · 10 Nov 2024
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024 · 12 Oct 2024
- Bull City Summer NC 2024 · 7 Sep 2024 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024 · 28 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Virginia Still-Open Winter 2024 · 4 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- North Carolina Championship 2023 · 4 Nov 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Virginia Beach Fall 2023 · 30 Sep 2023
- Concord Summer 2023 · 25 Jun 2023
- Big Cubes in Edneyville 2023 · 28 May 2023
- Cougar Qualifier 2023 · 29 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Wolfpack Winter 2023 · 5 Feb 2023
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.
- Rue Clippinger — met in 67 rounds, never finished ahead
- Kavin Rajendran — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Easan Peacock — met in 57 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.33 away.
- A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 2.55 away.
Targets move as he improves.