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Rowan Stough

2×2 · top 0.065% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022STOU01

Rowan Stough has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.64, set at Baton Rouge Winter 2026, puts him in the top 0.065% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22nd in the United States. Until June 2015, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 89 competitions since January 2022, he has put 4,853 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.87 in January 2022 to 5.04, a 78% improvement. Rowan has entered 89 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.065% of 186,767 all-time
0.64
signature single · Baton Rouge Winter 2026
4,853
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.641.17
top 0.065%22 / 40,951
Skewb1.162.10
top 0.11%19 / 18,907
3×35.047.09
top 0.13%89 / 59,724
Pyraminx1.492.41
top 0.41%127 / 28,708
Clock2.993.63
top 0.73%72 / 8,927
4×427.3134.62
top 1.5%259 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed10.7114.28
top 1.6%255 / 15,683
Square-18.6312.64
top 3.9%291 / 6,743
Megaminx57.301:05.94
top 8.6%587 / 7,841
5×51:05.411:12.48
top 8.7%674 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves—
early days — 1 solve385 / 2,040
6×62:20.022:34.46
top 20.5%723 / 4,196
7×74:34.484:41.70
top 42.6%1,223 / 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

Baton Rouge Winter 2022: 22.87GA Cubers February A 2022: 16.29FSUbers 2022: 11.42Jasper Highlands 2022: 12.28Starkvegas Spring 2022: 11.33FSUbers 2.0 2022: 14.80Buccaneer Bonanza 2022: 10.28GA Cubers Pride 2022: 12.43CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 10.95Let's Even the Odds Alabama 2022: 10.92T-Town Showdown 2022: 10.51Cuber Jackets Fall 2022: 10.91GA Cubers Turkey Gobblers 2022: 9.59Rocky Top 2022: 9.47Baton Rouge Winter 2023: 9.36Music City Speedsolving 2023: 9.08Solving in Shreveport 2023: 10.03Kendeda Kubing B 2023: 7.99Holiday Open 2023: 10.34AL Cubers Warm Up 2023: 9.63Tally Spring 2023: 8.84CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023: 8.95Simpson Scramble 2023: 9.42FSUbers 4.0 2023: 9.18AlphaCubing A 2023: 8.25Cajun Cube Clash 2023: 9.26Louisiana Mega Two Day 2023: 8.56Fountain City 2023: 9.16CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.12Going Fast in Franklin 2023: 8.24Music City Speedsolving Fall 2023: 8.54Clarks Hill Cubing 2023: 7.19T-Town Showdown 2023: 6.93Cubing Knights IV 2023: 7.47Get Ahead in Andalusia 2023: 8.26Algorithms on Abercorn 2023: 8.03Fleur-de-Lis Fall LA 2023: 7.60Rocky Top 2023: 8.36FSUbers 5.0 2024: 8.64Choo Choo Cubing B 2024: 7.09TN Speedsolving Winter 2024: 7.39Volunteer State Cubing 2024: 8.17Fountain City Spring Fling 2024: 7.73Red Stick Spring 2024: 7.42Middle Georgia Speedsolving 2024: 7.26FSUbers 6.0 2024: 8.48Alabama Championship 2024: 7.27See Georgia: Lake Russell A 2024: 7.01Louisiana Championship 2024: 7.76CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 7.20Cajun Cube Clash 2024: 7.32T-Town Showdown AL 2024: 8.04Scenic City Scramble TN 2024: 7.64FSUbers 7.0 2024: 8.41Fleur-de-Lis Fall LA 2024: 6.83CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 7.64Solving at Sycamore TN 2024: 7.55Coosa Cubing Clash 2024: 7.46Baton Rouge Winter B 2025: 7.62Cubing on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 6.99Mississippi Championship 2025: 7.07Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025: 6.16GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2025: 6.92South East Louisiana Open 2025: 6.52Skewbing in School Kennesaw 2025: 6.96CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 7.69Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.48CubingUSA Southern Championship 2025: 7.92Fort Payne Summer 2025: 6.56Louisiana Mega Two Day 2025: 5.04Zephyr Cube Bash 2025: 6.73Atlanta Algs at AIS Autumn 2025: 7.34FSUbers 10.0 2025: 6.12GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2025: 6.70Spookin' on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 5.53Gulf Shores 2025: 5.91LA Unorthodox Twistgiving 2025: 6.58Texas Championship 2025: 6.75Baton Rouge Winter 2026: 6.97Georgia Championship 2026: 7.20Arkansas Championship 2026: 7.40Cube Against Cancer LA 2026: 6.84Cube Against Cancer Roswell 2026: 6.39CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 7.26Cube Against Cancer Franklin 2026: 6.15GA Cubers Pride 2026: 6.81Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 6.72Cubalaya LA 2026: 7.33Cubing the Coast MS 2026: 6.445.0422.8722 Jan 202222 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.

  • Katie Hull — met in 574 rounds, finished ahead 208 times
  • Alex Bohac — met in 479 rounds, finished ahead 200 times
  • Daniel Mullen — met in 440 rounds, finished ahead 154 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.16 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.