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Ryan Waite

3×3 · top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018WAIT02

Ryan Waite has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.76, set at Fast In Mass 2022, puts him in the top 6.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,719th in the United States. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 56 competitions since November 2018, he has put 1,758 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.46 in November 2018 to 9.76, a 57% improvement. Ryan has entered 56 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.76
signature single · Fast In Mass 2022
1,758
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.7612.01
top 6.8%3,719 / 59,724
Skewb3.856.00
top 9.9%1,516 / 18,907
2×22.654.60
top 10.4%4,094 / 40,951
4×441.4450.10
top 13.8%2,061 / 19,072
Pyraminx5.346.48
top 15.4%4,033 / 28,708
5×51:15.641:29.69
top 15.8%1,225 / 9,401
Clock8.4310.13
top 17.2%1,314 / 8,927
Megaminx1:13.781:24.90
top 17.9%1,214 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed24.5131.51
top 32.9%4,306 / 15,683
6×62:48.602:57.59
top 35.4%1,271 / 4,196
7×74:30.754:45.60
top 41.3%1,177 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves49.33
top 68.6%1,424 / 2,040
Square-145.56—
top 71.8%4,714 / 6,743

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

BA Fall Cube Fest 2018: 22.46Boston University Winter 2019: 16.36Salem Cube Trials 2019: 15.37Empire State Spring 2019: 14.20The Battle of Lexington 2019: 12.67Cubing in Cambridge 2019: 15.15Newmarket Open 2019: 15.97Massachusetts Championship 2019: 14.14Quabbin Summer 2019: 16.04MIT Winter 2020: 13.52Scranton Scramble 2020: 14.15Constitution State Winter 2020: 13.21Cubing with the Viking 2020: 11.14Empire State Summer A 2021: 10.66Empire State Winter A 2022: 11.09Saint John's Spring 2022: 11.66CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 10.47Fast In Mass 2022: 9.76New York Championship 2022: 10.80Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 11.79Naticube 2022: 10.90Loon Cubikon 2022: 12.39Puzzling in Providence 2023: 11.01Troy Story 2023: 10.72Fall River Cubikon 2023: 10.07New Hampshire Spring 2023: 11.56Return to Quabbin 2023: 11.53Silver City Side Events 2023: 11.18Quick in Quincy 2023: 10.56CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.37South Deerfield Side Events 2023: 12.52Loon Cubikon 2023: 11.59Salem Cubikon 2024: 11.56Lexington Weeknights II 2024: 12.69Lexington Weeknights III 2024: 12.29CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 11.73Ocean State Cubikon 2024: 11.91QuabbiNxN Fall 2024: 10.54Quick in Quincy 2024: 11.64Amherst Fall 2024: 11.49Fall River Cubikon 2025: 10.36Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 11.25Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 12.67Lexington Weeknights III 2025: 12.61Connecticut Championship 2025: 11.59CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 12.52Ocean State Cubikon 2025: 12.50New Hampshire Championship 2025: 10.84Brown Cubing Day 2026: 11.46Wakefield MA Spring 2026: 12.03UnOrono-thodox Blocks 2026: 14.679.7622.463 Nov 201816 May 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.

  • Derek White — met in 279 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Ethan Zhuang — met in 248 rounds, finished ahead 88 times
  • Will Russo — met in 247 rounds, finished ahead 6 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.76 away.
  • A sub-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.