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Thomas Mercer

2×2 · top 4.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016MERC04

Thomas Mercer has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.87, set at Alberta 10th Anniversary 2025, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 251st in Canada. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since January 2016, he has put 719 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.33 in January 2016 to 9.08, a 69% improvement. Thomas has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 4.0% of 186,767 all-time
1.87
signature single · Alberta 10th Anniversary 2025
719
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
2×21.872.72
top 4.0%251 / 7,173
3×39.0811.14
top 5.1%484 / 10,392
Pyraminx4.065.56
top 8.0%286 / 4,858
4×436.8341.35
top 8.5%200 / 3,118
Skewb3.735.56
top 9.1%190 / 2,907
Megaminx58.461:01.06
top 9.2%85 / 1,375
Clock6.768.52
top 10.1%72 / 1,029
5×51:12.161:17.63
top 13.2%152 / 1,499
7×73:26.743:41.57
top 18.7%69 / 503
6×62:22.462:38.49
top 21.8%109 / 665
Square-119.7624.56
top 27.5%236 / 952
3×3 one-handed23.3728.61
top 29.8%665 / 2,620
3×3 blindfolded3:49.89—
early days — 2 solves233 / 351
3×3 Fewest Moves54 moves—
early days — 1 solve251 / 283

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

Edmonton Open Winter 2016: 29.33Edmonton Limited Summer 2016: 22.70QUALberta 2017: 22.59Sherwood Park Open Summer 2017: 17.97Cubing Under the Stars 2018: 16.67Canada's Best in the West 2018: 14.72Edmonton New Year 2019: 13.18Canada's Wild West 2019: 12.51Sherwood Park Summer 2019: 14.98Strathcona 2019: 13.83Alberta 5th Anniversary 2020: 9.66Spruce Grove Summer 2022: 10.55Edmonton Summer Twist 2022: 13.76Rockies Rager Fall 2022: 10.64Sylvan Solves 2022: 10.40Sherwood Park Summer 2023: 10.22Odd Day in Sylvan 2023: 9.08Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2024: 9.37Alberta 10th Anniversary 2025: 9.78Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2025: 9.139.0829.3330 Jan 201630 Aug 2025

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.

  • Alex Mutch — met in 124 rounds, finished ahead 57 times
  • Noah Wilde — met in 122 rounds, finished ahead 36 times
  • James Deibert — met in 119 rounds, finished ahead 36 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.