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Mike Hughey

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time · competing since June 2007 · 2007HUGH01

Mike Hughey has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 26 moves, set at Another Fantastic Michigan Competition 2015, puts him in the top 6.2% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 149th in the United States. Across 73 competitions since June 2007, he has put 2,341 official solves on the record across 17 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 35.27 in June 2007 to 15.97, a 55% improvement. Mike has entered 73 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 6.2% of 12,294 all-time
26 moves
signature single · Another Fantastic Michigan Competition 2015
2,341
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
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves29.00
top 6.2%149 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind15 of 16 cubes · 57:55—
top 9.9%69 / 731
3×3 blindfolded56.251:23.01
top 11.8%227 / 2,092
Pyraminx5.858.35
top 18.9%5,026 / 28,708
Clock9.3810.09
top 21.9%1,690 / 8,927
Skewb5.799.45
top 24.2%3,929 / 18,907
5×5 blindfolded11:35.0013:02.00
top 27.0%51 / 218
3×315.9719.39
top 27.7%15,174 / 59,724
Square-120.3829.58
top 28.8%1,881 / 6,743
2×24.186.05
top 28.8%11,427 / 40,951
4×4 blindfolded6:07.476:37.86
top 30.1%125 / 440
Megaminx1:47.762:03.33
top 39.1%2,816 / 7,841
4×41:05.951:14.86
top 42.8%7,043 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed29.8138.85
top 46.2%6,282 / 15,683
5×51:57.442:11.18
top 47.7%3,975 / 9,401
6×63:53.664:09.17
top 63.3%2,449 / 4,196
7×75:51.686:15.24
top 65.6%1,990 / 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

US Open 2007: 35.27Virginia Open 2007: 29.07Chattahoochee Spring competition 2008: 25.93Cincinnati Spring Open 2008: 26.56US Nationals and Open 2008: 23.08Cincinnati Summer Open 2008: 26.31Lexington Fall Open 2008: 23.09Virginia Open 2008: 20.09Indiana Winter Open 2008: 24.50Ohio Open 2009: 21.94US Nationals 2009: 22.08Thankscubing Day 2009: 20.30Chicago Open 2010: 21.63Ohio Open 2010: 20.53Battle of Lexington 2010: 22.05Cat and Mouse 2010: 19.00United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 19.25Toronto Open Summer 2010: 19.02Dayton Open 2010: 19.69UIUC Spring 2011: 20.22Dixon Open 2011: 20.47Ohio Open 2011: 16.97United States National Championships 2011: 19.43Dayton Fall 2011: 19.44Hillsdale Winter 2012: 19.18New Albany 2012: 19.13Dixon Open 2012: 20.00United States National Championships 2012: 18.81Dayton Fall 2012: 19.30Dixon Winter 2013: 17.77Hillsdale Winter 2013: 15.97UIUC Spring 2013: 19.15Dayton Open 2013: 18.15Dixon Summer 2013: 17.80World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 19.59Indiana 2013: 18.21Leaf Town 2013: 17.90UIUC Fall 2013: 17.13Michigan 2014: 18.59Indiana 2014: 18.25Summit City Open 2015: 18.18Field of Cubes 2015: 17.73Indiana 2015: 20.29CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 20.65CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2018: 16.54Indiana 2019: 18.18Ohio State Expo Open 2022: 17.24Indiana Finally Returns 2023: 18.75UIUC Spring 2023: 18.75CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 17.61CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 18.04UIUC Fall 2023: 17.83Nimble Hands in Noblesville 2024: 16.01Bloomington Open 2024: 18.45Little Giant Open 2024: 17.86RVA Spring 2026: 19.47CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 18.96Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 18.5115.9735.2716 Jun 20072 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-50 3×3 blindfolded single — 1,207 people have one; it is 6.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.