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Michael Stephan

3×3 · top 18.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025STEP03

Michael Stephan has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.39, set at UCLA Spring 2025, puts him in the top 18.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,106th in the United States. Across 2 competitions since April 2025, he has put 31 official solves on the record across five events. Michael has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 18.8% of 284,439 all-time
13.39
signature single · UCLA Spring 2025
31
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×313.3916.33
top 18.8%10,106 / 59,724
2×25.199.03
top 41.7%16,742 / 40,951
Pyraminx10.3714.82
top 55.9%16,340 / 28,708
4×41:30.37
top 63.8%11,184 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed1:04.04
early days — 2 solves13,016 / 15,683

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

UCLA Spring 2025: 13.39West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 13.5813.3913.5820 Apr 202522 Jun 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.39 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.