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Ryan Hughes

2×2 · top 0.15% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022HUGH04

Ryan Hughes has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.73, set at NAC Prep in Palisades 2026, puts him in the top 0.15% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 63rd in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 76 competitions since May 2022, he has put 3,665 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.96 in May 2022 to 7.09, a 64% improvement. Ryan has entered 76 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.15% of 186,767 all-time
0.73
signature single · NAC Prep in Palisades 2026
3,665
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.731.88
top 0.15%63 / 40,951
Skewb1.322.79
top 0.24%36 / 18,907
Pyraminx1.562.65
top 0.5%155 / 28,708
Square-16.278.40
top 0.97%80 / 6,743
3×37.098.71
top 1.4%868 / 59,724
Clock3.905.04
top 2.1%183 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed13.4316.06
top 5.1%727 / 15,683
4×434.0440.13
top 5.9%908 / 19,072
Megaminx1:08.011:16.92
top 14.5%979 / 7,841
5×51:13.961:16.84
top 14.5%1,118 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves37.00
top 20.4%446 / 2,040
6×62:42.452:46.33
top 32.1%1,134 / 4,196
3×3 blindfolded2:15.19—
top 38.3%806 / 2,092
7×75:02.485:19.42
top 51.3%1,493 / 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

CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 19.96New York Championship 2022: 18.02Westport Summer 2022: 14.24Babylon Summer 2022: 13.11Empire State Fall 2022: 14.65New York Yopen 2022: 11.06New York New Year 2023: 11.33Mum's the Word 2023: 11.79Empire State Winter Warmup 2023: 10.49Pretzel Mania 2023: 9.80Niskayuna Nimble Fingers 2023: 9.56NJIT Spring 2023: 11.76PBs in Palisades 2023: 9.65South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 10.08GCU Spring 2023: 10.18North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023: 9.97CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 10.87CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.66Newark's On Track 2023: 8.75CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 8.71Hudson Valley 2023: 8.84New York New Year 2024: 10.82Troy Story 2024: 10.33Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024: 10.04PBs in Palisades 2024: 9.10Ridgefield Spring 2024: 8.23Empire State Spring Special 2024: 8.83Spring into Summit 2024: 8.36North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024: 9.30New Jersey Championship 2024: 10.21Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 10.18Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.45Westport Summer 2024: 9.99CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 8.84Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 10.53M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 9.89ALL1- Empire State 2024: 9.42Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024: 9.84Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 9.11Kisco Cubing 2025: 10.40Pop Off Princeton 2025: 8.82PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 8.88Hudson Valley Winter 2025: 9.14PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 7.86PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 9.33Binghamton Cube Day 2025: 9.37PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 9.09American Dream NJ 2025: 9.76Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 8.93Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.44Fort Lee Summer 2025: 8.49CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.56Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 9.08Westport Fall 2025: 8.43New York New Year 2025: 9.43Fort Lee Winter 2026: 8.19PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 7.77Liberty Science Center Open A 2026: 7.09Lodi Solves Spring 2026: 7.47PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 9.03NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 8.32Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.13Mid-Atlantic Warm-Up 2026: 9.33Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 8.677.0919.9627 May 202214 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 494 rounds, finished ahead 165 times
  • Ayden Dincher — met in 494 rounds, finished ahead 59 times
  • Rex Ozsvath — met in 467 rounds, finished ahead 301 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.