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Ryan Hatlestad

Square-1 · top 3.5% of 25,272 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016HATL02

Ryan Hatlestad has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 8.34, set at Northwest Championship 2026, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 258th in the United States. Until November 2013, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since April 2016, he has put 631 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 58.11 in April 2016 to 10.99, an 81% improvement. Ryan has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 3.5% of 25,272 all-time
8.34
signature single · Northwest Championship 2026
631
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Square-18.3410.59
top 3.5%258 / 6,743
3×310.9913.74
top 10.4%5,652 / 59,724
2×22.844.95
top 12.4%4,890 / 40,951
Clock8.8110.42
top 19.0%1,448 / 8,927
4×447.7251.34
top 21.8%3,305 / 19,072
Pyraminx6.7810.97
top 26.1%7,147 / 28,708
Skewb6.499.40
top 29.6%4,866 / 18,907
3×3 blindfolded2:09.36—
top 36.5%766 / 2,092
5×51:44.541:49.31
top 38.8%3,110 / 9,401

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

Puget Sound Spring 2016: 58.11Rose City 2016: 46.92SnoCo Feet Fest 2019: 31.87Puget Sound Spring 2019: 24.24Puget Sound Fall 2019: 26.65Puget Sound NxNxN 2019: 22.65Washington Championship 2020: 26.07SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021: 19.63Bothell Spring 2022: 18.68School's Out PLU 2022: 17.93SnoCo Favorites 2022: 18.29Oregon Championship 2022: 18.51Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022: 14.63New Kent On The Block 2022: 13.08SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022: 16.44Oregon Championship 2024: 14.22Couve Cubing Fall 2024: 14.56Tacoma Winter 2025: 16.34Warm Up Seattle 2025: 14.50 Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025: 10.99Kent Fall 2025: 13.41North Sound Spring 2026: 13.19Lakewood Spring 2026: 12.31Kent Spring 2026: 12.64Northwest Championship 2026: 11.0810.9958.1116 Apr 201621 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-8 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 0.34 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.