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Michael S. Lander

Square-1 · top 1.7% of 25,272 all-time · competing since March 2018 · 2018LAND03

Michael S. Lander has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 6.93, set at Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 131st in the United States. Until June 2016, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 65 competitions since March 2018, he has put 2,216 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.16 in March 2018 to 8.76, a 74% improvement. Michael has entered 65 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 1.7% of 25,272 all-time
6.93
signature single · Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025
2,216
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Square-16.939.10
top 1.7%131 / 6,743
2×21.603.87
top 2.6%1,011 / 40,951
3×38.7610.65
top 4.3%2,403 / 59,724
4×433.7337.99
top 5.6%852 / 19,072
5×51:00.531:14.00
top 5.8%476 / 9,401
Clock7.739.11
top 13.9%1,063 / 8,927
Megaminx1:13.081:22.92
top 17.5%1,187 / 7,841
Pyraminx5.7610.11
top 18.2%4,850 / 28,708
6×62:16.612:30.24
top 18.8%666 / 4,196
3×3 one-handed20.5232.18
top 21.9%2,823 / 15,683
Skewb5.679.01
top 23.2%3,722 / 18,907
7×74:33.454:56.28
top 42.2%1,205 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves—
top 71.5%1,479 / 2,040

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

BarbeCubing 2018: 34.16Central Arkansas Summer 2018: 20.97Razorback Fall 2018: 17.00Arkansas Cubing Drive 2018: 14.49Oklahoma Open 2019: 15.65Dallas Warm Up 2019: 12.91Kansas Cubing Open Winter 2022: 10.94Catered Cubing Arkansas 2023: 10.35Arkansolve 2023: 10.00Twisters in Tulsa 2023: 10.12CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 9.39Air Capital Cubing Summer 2023: 11.27Cube With Attention in Denton 2023: 9.41Longhorn Cube Day 2023: 10.04Oklahoma Fall 2023: 10.19DFW Winter Variation 2024: 9.07UCO Cubing Winter 2024: 9.32Barely Awake Boulder 2024: 10.55DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 9.18OKC Cube-Off Winter 2024: 9.87Wichita Family ArtVenture 2024: 9.22DFW Eclipse Cubing 2024: 9.54Oklahoma Championship 2024: 9.89Oklahoma Afternoon Twist 2024: 10.94Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.17CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 10.09DFW Back to School 2024: 9.39Cube More in Ardmore 2024: 10.36Arkansolve Fall 2024: 11.07OKC Holiday Cube-Off 2024: 9.83Cube a Ton in Arlington 2024: 10.19DFW Cubing Winter 2025: 10.23Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025: 8.79Welcome Back Tulsa 2025: 9.87Arkansas Championship 2025: 10.43DFW Cubing Spring 2025: 9.50Oklahoma Championship 2025: 10.95DFW Qualifier 2025: 8.76Cubing in Cave Springs Arkansas 2025: 10.36Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.75CubingUSA Southern Championship 2025: 10.42Cube More in Ardmore 2025: 10.23OKC Unorthodox Blocks 2025: 10.29OKC Weeknight Solves 2025: 9.26Arkansolve Fall 2025: 10.40Texas Championship 2025: 9.77Tulsa Holiday Cube-Off 2025: 8.87DFW Cubing Winter 2026: 9.05OKC Winter 2026: 10.29OKC Unorthodox Blocks Winter 2026: 10.75Arkansas Championship 2026: 10.42Nebraska Championship 2026: 10.63Cube Against Cancer Tulsa 2026: 9.63Panhandling for Cubes Oklahoma 2026: 9.81GAN Southern Championship 2026: 10.79Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 10.818.7634.1617 Mar 20182 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.

  • Ryan Pilat — met in 335 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Jake Maddox — met in 261 rounds, finished ahead 83 times
  • Casey Ngo — met in 236 rounds, finished ahead 40 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 Square-1 single — 201 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.