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Thaddeus Ciras

2×2 · top 2.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017CIRA01

Thaddeus Ciras has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.67, set at Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025, puts him in the top 2.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,136th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 68 competitions since July 2017, he has put 1,686 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.00 in July 2017 to 11.50, an 18% improvement. Thaddeus has entered 68 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.9% of 186,767 all-time
1.67
signature single · Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025
1,686
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.674.69
top 2.9%1,136 / 40,951
3×311.5013.93
top 12.2%6,544 / 59,724
4×440.5850.14
top 12.8%1,885 / 19,072
Skewb4.6712.14
top 15.7%2,465 / 18,907
5×51:17.811:32.96
top 17.4%1,354 / 9,401
Pyraminx5.748.66
top 18.1%4,800 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed19.6324.54
top 19.5%2,509 / 15,683
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves39.00
top 20.4%446 / 2,040
6×62:32.842:58.47
top 27.1%950 / 4,196
7×74:00.844:09.88
top 31.0%862 / 3,184
Megaminx1:42.731:55.10
top 36.3%2,592 / 7,841
Square-154.61—
top 80.0%5,332 / 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

Lexington Summer 2017: 14.00Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 15.74BA Cube Fest 2018: 16.62BU Spring 2018: 16.95Quizzical Quabbin Qualifier 2018: 14.64Connect Community 2018: 14.29MIT Fall 2018: 14.10BA Fall Cube Fest 2018: 12.56The Battle of Lexington 2018: 16.46Boston University Winter 2019: 12.92Salem Cube Trials 2019: 14.40Burke Mountain Cubing 2019: 14.50The Battle of Lexington 2019: 13.53Cubing in Cambridge 2019: 13.04Massachusetts Championship 2019: 14.10Quabbin Summer 2019: 13.84Cubing with the Viking 2020: 14.95Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022: 16.25CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 16.71Cubing in Beverly 2022: 12.84Loon Cubikon 2022: 12.24Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 13.32Garden City Winter 2023: 14.48Saint John's Scramble 2023: 12.91Cape Cod 2023: 11.50Middleboro Cubikon 2023: 13.84New Hampshire Spring 2023: 12.82Return to Quabbin 2023: 14.24CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 14.41Be Quick in Brunswick 2023: 13.09Elm City Kubikon 2023: 12.62CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 13.60Northampton Fall B 2023: 12.06Vermont Cubikon 2023: 13.24Winchester Wind Down 2023: 13.22Rhode Island Winter 2024: 13.19The Battle of Lexington 2024: 14.29WPI Winter 2024: 13.80Quabbin Newcomers 2024: 12.24QuabbiNxN 2024: 12.56Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 13.41CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 12.28Brookline Favorites 2024: 12.75QuabbiNxN Fall 2024: 13.02Loon Cubikon 2024: 15.92Cubing at the Course CT 2025: 13.24Cubing at Hampton Beach 2025: 14.17Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 13.93The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 13.42CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 14.96Fitchburg Fall 2025: 14.08Berkshires Cube Day at BART 2026: 11.94Fitchburg Spring 2026: 13.40Quabbin Spring 2026: 15.04Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 13.3411.5016.951 Jul 20172 Jul 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 277 rounds, finished ahead 21 times
  • Alex Cohen — met in 255 rounds, finished ahead 45 times
  • Will Russo — met in 242 rounds, finished ahead 4 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.