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Michael Pirollo

2×2 · top 4.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2018 · 2018PIRO02

Michael Pirollo has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.96, set at PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,791st in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since August 2018, he has put 892 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.35 in April 2022 to 14.42, a 35% improvement. Michael has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.5% of 186,767 all-time
1.96
signature single · PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025
892
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.964.86
top 4.5%1,791 / 40,951
Skewb3.036.23
top 5.1%789 / 18,907
Pyraminx5.587.28
top 16.9%4,498 / 28,708
3×314.4217.31
top 22.4%12,133 / 59,724
Clock10.0411.97
top 25.3%1,935 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed24.2334.37
top 32.1%4,191 / 15,683
4×41:07.311:15.69
top 44.3%7,317 / 19,072
5×52:25.382:45.86
top 63.6%5,516 / 9,401
6×65:22.97—
early days — 2 solves3,492 / 4,196

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

Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 22.35Dunkirk Spring A 2022: 24.84East Brunswick Open 2022: 27.44St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 30.59Pretzel Mania 2022: 33.88Princeton Fall 2022: 24.47West Chester Fall 2022: 28.63Pretzel Mania 2023: 21.01Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 24.31South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 28.86North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023: 21.82Cubing in the Lion's Den 2023: 25.31Berwick Fall 2023: 20.22GCU Winter 2024: 20.29PBs in Palisades 2024: 17.87It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 16.35North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024: 16.14New Jersey Championship 2024: 18.38Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 15.24High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 18.82Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 15.56Happy Valley Fall PA 2024: 16.86Kisco Cubing 2025: 14.42PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 16.98New-Cumberland County 2025: 17.39The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 17.01King of Prussia Spring 2025: 17.73American Dream NJ 2025: 18.32East Berlin Eccentric Blocks PA 2025: 17.73Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 16.64Bucks County Cubing AM 2025: 16.34CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 15.10Lodi Solves Spring 2026: 18.57Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 17.49Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 17.2314.4233.882 Apr 202214 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 0.96 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.03 away.

Targets move as he improves.