People · United States
Paxis Brodeur
2×2 · top 5.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2025 · 2025BROD03
Paxis Brodeur has been competing for a year. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.12, set at Cincinnati Open 2025, puts him in the top 5.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,232nd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since June 2025, he has put 150 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.63 in June 2025 to 10.98, a 25% improvement. Paxis has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.12 | 4.34 | top 5.6% | 2,232 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.98 | 11.02 | top 7.5% | 1,929 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 | 10.98 | 12.28 | top 10.4% | 5,632 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 7.03 | 8.78 | top 33.9% | 5,708 / 18,907 | |
| 5×5 | 1:44.91 | 1:53.83 | top 39.1% | 3,142 / 9,401 | |
| 4×4 | 1:03.92 | 1:08.28 | top 40.6% | 6,613 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 28.21 | 34.00 | top 42.4% | 5,706 / 15,683 | |
| Megaminx | 2:03.65 | — | early days — 2 solves | 3,551 / 7,841 | |
| Clock | 25.58 | 29.18 | top 77.8% | 6,831 / 8,927 | |
| 6×6 | 4:56.17 | — | early days — 1 solve | 3,238 / 4,196 | |
| 7×7 | 7:21.70 | — | early days — 1 solve | 2,644 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 9 Aug 2025Three personal bests in one day at Cincinnati Open 2025.
- 7 Jun 2025First competition: Minxville Indiana 2025. A 14.63 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Brown County Blitz 2026 · 29 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Brown County Big Cubes 2026 · 28 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Best in West Lafayette 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cincinnati Cube Challenge 2025 · 11 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Cincinnati Open 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Minxville Indiana 2025 · 7 Jun 2025
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.
- Luke Garrett — met in 34 rounds, never finished ahead
- Chris Yeager — met in 31 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Roland Ababat — met in 28 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
Targets move as he improves.