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Ryan Bae

3×3 · top 13.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2019 · 2019BAER02

Ryan Bae has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.94, set at UCSD Winter 2023, puts him in the top 13.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,343rd in the United States. Across 28 competitions since December 2019, he has put 357 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.64 in December 2019 to 11.94, a 36% improvement. Ryan has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.7% of 284,439 all-time
11.94
signature single · UCSD Winter 2023
357
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×311.9413.84
top 13.7%7,343 / 59,724
2×23.214.97
top 16.7%6,555 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed25.9032.82
top 36.6%4,850 / 15,683
Pyraminx8.7511.13
top 42.7%12,224 / 28,708
4×41:50.67
top 77.0%14,159 / 19,072
Skewb18.10
early days — 1 solve16,615 / 18,907

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 22 2019: 18.64A Bruin Cube Day 2022: 12.71Berkeley Summer 2022: 18.95WCC Western Championship 2022: 18.29Bay Area Speedcubin' 39 2022: 16.57A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 13.46Cal Poly SLO Spring 2023: 15.70CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 17.74Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 14.90Nub Open Mission Viejo 2023: 14.94UCSD Winter 2023: 11.94USC Cubing 2024: 14.20Los Angeles Newcomers 2024: 13.30Bay Area Speedcubin' 61 - San Jose 2024: 15.36CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 16.02Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2024: 12.53UCSD Fall 2024: 14.20Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 14.38Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 14.60UCLA Spring 2025: 14.28West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 13.81Davis Summer 2025: 15.01UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 12.39Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 15.47Super Duper San Diego 2026: 19.41Agoura Winter 2026: 15.92UCLA Spring 2026: 12.8011.9419.4121 Dec 201915 Feb 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.94 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.