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Tyler Youlden

2×2 · top 0.13% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019YOUL01

Tyler Youlden has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.71, set at Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025, puts him in the top 0.13% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 56th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since April 2019, he has put 1,634 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.27 in April 2019 to 7.11, a 72% improvement. Tyler has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.13% of 186,767 all-time
0.71
signature single · Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025
1,634
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.712.42
top 0.13%56 / 40,951
Pyraminx1.725.20
top 0.7%214 / 28,708
Skewb1.773.89
top 0.86%134 / 18,907
3×37.118.54
top 1.5%880 / 59,724
4×429.3435.63
top 2.4%402 / 19,072
Square-17.9210.91
top 2.9%212 / 6,743
5×51:00.201:05.85
top 5.6%462 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed14.5117.02
top 7.1%953 / 15,683
Clock6.407.62
top 8.7%675 / 8,927
6×62:22.712:34.50
top 21.9%771 / 4,196
Megaminx1:21.971:35.70
top 23.1%1,587 / 7,841
7×74:10.934:32.43
top 34.6%965 / 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

CubeIowa 2019: 25.27CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2019: 19.563x3 Only Minnesota 2019: 15.24Cubetcha 2019: 12.97Mega Minnesota Winter 2019: 13.10Minnesota Cube Days 2020: 12.67Cubetcha A 2021: 8.36Minnesota Cube Melt 2022: 8.89Minnesota Cube Day 2022: 9.03Cubetcha 2022: 8.57Rochester Fall 2022: 7.81SPAMtown Cubing 2023: 8.01Minnesota Cube Melt 2023: 8.99Cubetcha 2023: 8.89SPAMtown II 2023: 9.27Side Events Minnesota 2023: 8.62North Star Cubing Challenge 2024: 8.27New Ulm Reboot 2024: 8.70CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2024: 9.46Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.37Cubetcha MN 2024: 8.01Minnesota Championship 2024: 7.54St. Ansgar 2025: 7.84Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025: 7.77NxNebraska 2025: 7.11Minnesota Championship 2025: 7.86Iowa Winter Cooldown 2026: 8.08St. Ansgar 2026: 8.33CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2026: 7.22SPAMTown IV MN 2026: 7.92Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2026: 8.167.1125.2713 Apr 201915 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.

  • Nathan Rahn — met in 245 rounds, finished ahead 31 times
  • Carter Kucala — met in 239 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Kaius Young — met in 232 rounds, finished ahead 60 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.72 away.
  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.