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Tyler Youlden

2×2 · top 0.13% of 189,179 all-time · competing since April 2019 · 2019YOUL01

Tyler Youlden has been competing for 8 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 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 59th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since April 2019, he has put 1,747 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 36,406 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 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.13% of 189,179 all-time
0.71
signature single · Corny Cubers Iowa Classic 2025
1,747
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.712.42
top 0.13%59 / 41,674
Pyraminx1.724.78
top 0.7%217 / 29,168
Skewb1.773.89
top 0.86%137 / 19,164
3×37.118.54
top 1.5%903 / 60,666
4×429.3435.63
top 2.5%415 / 19,354
Square-17.9210.91
top 2.9%215 / 6,846
5×51:00.201:05.85
top 5.7%475 / 9,537
3×3 one-handed13.8615.99
top 5.9%836 / 15,900
Clock6.407.62
top 8.7%685 / 9,172
6×62:22.712:33.84
top 22.0%785 / 4,262
Megaminx1:21.971:35.70
top 23.1%1,620 / 8,026
7×73:47.623:59.91
top 26.3%747 / 3,236

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: 8.16Iowa Championship 2026: 7.927.1125.2713 Apr 201919 Sep 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 267 rounds, finished ahead 35 times
  • Carter Kucala — met in 263 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
  • Kaius Young — met in 252 rounds, finished ahead 70 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.