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Tyler Lindow Tsao

2×2 · top 0.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2024 · 2024TSAO01

Tyler Lindow Tsao has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.15, set at Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 381st in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since April 2024, he has put 1,530 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 82% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.69 in April 2024 to 6.83, a 59% improvement. Tyler has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.9% of 186,767 all-time
1.15
signature single · Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026
1,530
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 82% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.152.61
top 0.9%381 / 40,951
3×36.837.99
top 1.1%715 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed10.9615.37
top 1.8%290 / 15,683
Pyraminx2.944.60
top 3.4%909 / 28,708
Clock4.635.17
top 3.5%291 / 8,927
4×432.7236.77
top 4.8%750 / 19,072
Square-19.4513.48
top 5.2%376 / 6,743
Skewb3.164.73
top 5.8%890 / 18,907
Megaminx56.011:00.73
top 7.9%551 / 7,841
5×51:07.311:16.38
top 9.8%771 / 9,401
6×62:05.962:10.66
top 13.6%500 / 4,196
7×73:18.813:25.28
top 15.9%444 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves37.33
top 17.4%385 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded1:19.612:08.12
top 19.5%389 / 2,092
4×4 blindfolded18:58.00—
early days — 1 solve374 / 440
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 5 cubes · 42:06—
early days — 1 solve668 / 731

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

Great Peconic Bay Spring 2024: 16.69Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 15.84Newark Academy Spring 2024: 15.58Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 13.99Mystic Cubikon 2024: 14.98CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 9.94Hudson Valley Summer 2024: 13.63M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 10.20Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024: 12.03Flushing Open PM 2024: 10.09Flushing Glow PM 2024: 11.66Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 12.34PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 11.06Flushing Glow Open PM 2025: 9.08Nevada Championship 2025: 8.82American Dream NJ 2025: 7.73Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.09Long Island Summer 2025: 9.48Connecticut Championship 2025: 9.20Brookhaven Summer 2025: 8.36CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 7.70Cubing in Westerly RI 2025: 9.61Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 9.79Fort Lee Winter 2026: 7.58PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 7.94Liberty Science Center Open A 2026: 7.83UCSD TritoNxN 2026: 8.62Colorado Springs Spring 2026: 8.51No Clocks in Greenpoint 2026: 7.51Cubing in the Cape Q3 2026: 6.83Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 8.256.8316.6920 Apr 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.