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Ryan Kern

Clock · top 0.29% of 32,048 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024KERN01

Ryan Kern has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.56, set at PBs in Palisades Open 2026, puts him in the top 0.29% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30th in the United States. Until January 2024, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 40 competitions since January 2024, he has put 1,539 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.23 in January 2024 to 7.27, a 69% improvement. Ryan has entered 40 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.29% of 32,048 all-time
2.56
signature single · PBs in Palisades Open 2026
1,539
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock2.563.35
top 0.29%30 / 8,927
Pyraminx1.612.72
top 0.56%173 / 28,708
Skewb1.853.04
top 1.0%155 / 18,907
3×37.279.14
top 1.7%1,002 / 59,724
Square-17.1611.44
top 2.0%152 / 6,743
2×21.562.43
top 2.4%953 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed12.6215.98
top 3.8%565 / 15,683
4×433.3236.64
top 5.2%806 / 19,072
Megaminx51.1557.14
top 5.6%404 / 7,841
5×51:07.751:12.53
top 10.1%793 / 9,401
6×62:06.822:12.56
top 14.0%510 / 4,196
7×73:21.383:27.13
top 16.8%470 / 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

GCU Winter 2024: 23.23Spring into Summit 2024: 16.64North Jersey Speedsolving A 2024: 16.40Newark Academy Spring 2024: 14.83Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 14.63Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 12.37Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 12.33Cubing-on-Hudson AM 2024: 9.25Flushing Glow PM 2024: 11.11Kisco Cubing 2025: 11.10Pop Off Princeton 2025: 11.21PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 10.99Rutgers Winter 2025: 10.88Flushing Glow Open PM 2025: 12.58PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 9.82Catskills Spring 2025: 9.58American Dream NJ 2025: 10.36Summit Summer 2025: 11.05Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 8.30Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 9.26CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 9.39Liberty Science Center Fall A 2025: 7.33Christmas City Cubing PA 2025: 7.27Flushing Glow Autumn PM 2025: 8.25Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 8.67Fort Lee Winter 2026: 9.54PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 7.71Liberty Science Center Open A 2026: 8.42Lodi Solves Spring 2026: 8.21PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 7.58New Providence Spring PM 2026: 8.63LCCC Cubing Summer 2026: 7.87NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 9.20Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.60Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 7.867.2723.2313 Jan 202414 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-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.