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Michael Mao

3×3 blindfolded · top 0.87% of 12,178 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022MAOM01

Michael Mao has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 18.45, set at Wrap It Up Barrie 2024, puts him in the top 0.87% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4th in Canada. Until June 2017, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 42 competitions since May 2022, he has put 730 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.42 in May 2022 to 6.77, a 41% improvement. Michael has entered 42 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 0.87% of 12,178 all-time
18.45
signature single · Wrap It Up Barrie 2024
730
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×3 blindfolded18.4522.38
top 0.87%4 / 351
3×36.778.05
top 1.1%113 / 10,392
2×21.733.85
top 3.2%212 / 7,173
4×433.4637.49
top 5.3%124 / 3,118
5×51:05.091:12.83
top 8.4%97 / 1,499
Skewb4.7110.28
top 16.0%349 / 2,907
6×62:13.682:32.38
top 17.2%82 / 665
Pyraminx6.1811.25
top 21.3%900 / 4,858
7×73:34.953:49.76
top 21.5%84 / 503

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

3x3x3 Only Hamilton B 2022: 11.42Battle of Waterloo 2022: 10.41Richmond Hill 2022: 11.42Ajax NxNxN 2022: 10.12Oakville Fall A 2022: 10.52Appleby Winter B 2023: 9.43Waterloo Favourites A 2023: 8.88Pickering A 2023: 8.60Guelph 2023: 8.18Southern Ontario Summer - Oshawa 2023: 8.76Michigan 2023: 7.99CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.52Ajax 3x3x3 Morning 2023: 7.85Appleby Fall A 2023: 8.00Waterloo Favourites Fall 2023: 8.21Scarborough Fall A 2023: 8.36Pickering Favourites Autumn 2023: 7.67Kingston Winter 2024: 8.52Greater Toronto 2024: 8.12London Winter 2024: 8.04Washtenaw Spring 2024: 7.58Michigan Championship 2024: 7.21Appleby Summer 2024: 8.56Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.89Ontario Championship 2024: 7.94Kitchener Mini Morning 2024: 7.35Wrap It Up Barrie 2024: 7.28Greater Toronto 2025: 6.77Mississauga Newcomers A 2025: 6.77Cube Against Cancer Buffalo 2025: 7.48One-Handed Open NY 2025: 7.21Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.08Clocktober Classic NY 2025: 7.75Pickering Favourites Fall 2025: 7.09Waterloo Fall 2025: 7.63Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.596.7711.4229 May 20222 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.

  • Abdullah Gulab — met in 102 rounds, finished ahead 93 times
  • Andrew Mao — met in 102 rounds, finished ahead 44 times
  • Ryan Wu — met in 89 rounds, finished ahead 6 times

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 blindfolded single — 19 people have one; it is 3.45 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.