People · Australia
Mitchell Sun
3×3 · top 6.9% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024SUNM02
Mitchell Sun has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.77, set at Melbourne Summer 2025, puts him in the top 6.9% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 639th in Australia. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since March 2024, he has put 178 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.72 in March 2024 to 9.77, a 17% improvement. Mitchell has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.77 | 12.64 | top 6.9% | 639 / 11,943 | |
| 2×2 | 3.30 | 4.36 | top 17.9% | 1,367 / 8,727 | |
| 4×4 | 49.18 | 1:01.53 | top 23.8% | 605 / 3,108 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 24.47 | 30.35 | top 32.9% | 757 / 2,685 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.06 | 10.36 | top 45.4% | 2,569 / 6,109 | |
| Megaminx | 2:01.45 | — | early days — 2 solves | 579 / 1,313 | |
| 5×5 | 1:57.75 | — | top 48.0% | 661 / 1,412 | |
| Skewb | 9.76 | 11.34 | top 53.5% | 1,765 / 3,589 | |
| 6×6 | 4:33.33 | — | early days — 1 solve | 494 / 667 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 24 Jan 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.77 at Melbourne Summer 2025.
- 24 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2025.
- 2 Mar 2024First competition: Altona Algorithms 2024. A 11.72 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Melbourne Cube Days 2025 · 29 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Summer 2025 · 24 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2024 · 30 Nov 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024 · 5 Oct 2024 — 1 personal best set
- The Big Cube Melbourne 2024 · 20 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Australian Nationals 2024 · 12 Jul 2024 — 1 personal best set
- FMC East Melbourne 2024 · 13 Apr 2024
- Cubing at The Game Expo 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Altona Algorithms 2024 · 2 Mar 2024
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.
- Hallel Ben-Meir — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Phoenix Patterson — met in 41 rounds, never finished ahead
- Jacob Joshi — met in 41 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.77 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.30 away.
Targets move as he improves.