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Ray Bai

4×4 · top 0.006% of 83,917 all-time · competing since September 2014 · 2014BAIR01

Ray Bai has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 16.84, set at Texas Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.006% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in the United States. Until April 2022, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 122 competitions since September 2014, he has put 6,426 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.13 in September 2014 to 4.41, a 73% improvement. Ray has entered 122 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 0.006% of 83,917 all-time
16.84
signature single · Texas Championship 2025
6,426
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×416.8423.49
top 0.006%2 / 19,072
3×34.416.32
top 0.04%29 / 59,724
Megaminx29.2334.97
top 0.16%12 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed7.929.70
top 0.18%27 / 15,683
5×540.3545.23
top 0.18%17 / 9,401
6×61:19.871:31.18
top 0.58%27 / 4,196
2×21.142.18
top 0.87%370 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.134.35
top 1.4%372 / 28,708
3×3 Fewest Moves21 moves26.67
top 1.5%39 / 2,040
Square-16.968.80
top 1.7%135 / 6,743
7×72:20.772:24.00
top 2.4%69 / 3,184
Skewb2.924.21
top 4.6%718 / 18,907
3×3 blindfolded1:20.371:35.13
top 19.7%391 / 2,092
Clock9.1810.15
top 20.9%1,614 / 8,927
3×3 Multi-Blind9 of 10 cubes · 58:07—
top 25.4%186 / 731

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

River Hill Summer 2014: 16.13Virginia Open Fall 2014: 13.76Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 12.90River Hill Winter 2015: 10.95Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 11.89Virginia Open Spring 2015: 10.73Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 9.93US Nationals 2015: 9.27Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 9.98Virginia Open Fall 2015: 9.13Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 8.92Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 8.49Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 8.21Severna Park Fall 2016: 7.62TJHSST Fall 2016: 7.82Virginia Open Winter 2017: 7.46Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 7.05EZ Cubes Spring 2017: 6.19Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 7.80CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 7.74Rally In The Valley 2017: 7.80ODU Big Blue Fall 2017: 8.28Maryland 2017: 8.02TJHSST Fall 2017: 8.33Severna Park Showdown 2017: 7.72Northern Neck Winter 2018: 7.24Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 8.66NovaCube 2018: 7.52River Hill Spring 2018: 6.76RVA Spring 2018: 6.79Tea Time Spring 2018: 7.61Rally In The Valley 2018: 7.20Tianjin Summer Open 2018: 7.69WCA European Championship 2018: 6.40Beijing Summer 2018: 7.45Shenyang Summer 2018: 7.13Pennsylvania 2018: 7.23Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 7.35TJHSST Fall 2018: 7.04Northern Neck Winter 2019: 7.88CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 6.80Virginia Qualifier 2019: 7.52River Hill Spring 2019: 6.37Richmond Spring 2019: 6.75Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 7.38Rally in the Valley 2019: 6.49CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 5.94Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 6.61Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019: 6.81TJHSST Fall 2019: 6.64Northern Neck Winter 2020: 6.46Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 7.05Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 6.59Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 6.82Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 5.41Owings Mills Summer 2022: 7.43Silver Spring Summer 2022: 5.49Think In Fink Fall 2022: 6.56WCC Western Championship 2022: 6.60Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 6.24Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 5.72Crystal City Winter 2023: 6.16Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 6.53Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 7.36DFW Spring Warmup 2023: 6.56DFW Cubing Spring 2023: 6.16CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 6.32DFW Cubing Summer 2023: 6.58CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 5.70Pretzel Mania Dallas 2023: 6.31Utah Valley Open 2023: 5.61Cube With Attention in Denton 2023: 6.08Longhorn Cube Day 2023: 6.42CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 5.49Texas Championship 2023: 6.56Keep Austin Weird 2023: 6.67DFW Cubing Fall 2023: 6.56Space City Winter 2024: 5.28DFW Winter Variation 2024: 6.17DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 5.64OKC Cube-Off Winter 2024: 5.88DFW Megacomp 2024: 6.32DFW Minicomp C 2024: 5.87DFW Eclipse Cubing 2024: 6.09DFW Cubing Spring 2024: 5.77Kansas Championship 2024: 6.34Don't Pop Austin 2024: 6.03Oklahoma Championship 2024: 6.13Oklahoma Afternoon Twist 2024: 5.65Rubik's North America All-Stars 2024: 5.21Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 6.54CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024: 6.00Cube More in Ardmore 2024: 5.29DFW Cubing Fall 2024: 5.97Texas Championship 2024: 5.71Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.70DFW Cubing Fall 2025: 5.67Texas Championship 2025: 4.41Temple Cubing Winter 2026: 5.64DFW Cubing Spring 2026: 5.20Cube Against Cancer DFW 2026: 6.30Temple Qualifier 2026: 6.15Oklahoma Championship 2026: 5.60GAN Southern Championship 2026: 5.68Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.55DFW Cubing Summer 2026: 5.934.4116.136 Sep 201429 Aug 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-4 3×3 single — 38 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-25 Megaminx single — 8 people have one; it is 4.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.