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Wade Buhrman

2×2 · top 0.54% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024BUHR02

Wade Buhrman has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.99, set at Missouri Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.54% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 225th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since May 2024, he has put 840 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 2×2 best has come down from 4.16 in May 2024 to 0.99, a 76% improvement. Wade has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.54% of 186,767 all-time
0.99
signature single · Missouri Championship 2025
840
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.992.38
top 0.54%225 / 40,951
3×36.788.90
top 1.1%691 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed12.0015.76
top 3.0%466 / 15,683
4×432.5441.17
top 4.6%732 / 19,072
Pyraminx3.344.73
top 4.8%1,269 / 28,708
Clock5.558.29
top 5.9%451 / 8,927
Skewb3.176.38
top 5.9%903 / 18,907
5×51:10.221:19.67
top 11.7%912 / 9,401
Megaminx1:03.471:09.03
top 11.8%798 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves37.67
top 14.8%327 / 2,040
Square-115.4325.13
top 17.4%1,181 / 6,743
7×73:39.444:00.49
top 23.3%662 / 3,184
6×62:30.192:39.98
top 25.7%913 / 4,196
3×3 blindfolded2:20.543:48.60
top 40.3%849 / 2,092
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 13:20—
early days — 2 solves510 / 731
4×4 blindfolded40:03.00—
early days — 1 solve439 / 440

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

Kansas Championship 2024: 4.16Wichita Speedcubing Fall 2024: 2.70Kansas Cube-Off Winter 2025: 2.76Wichita Art Museum 2025: 1.73Kansas Championship 2025: 2.42Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 2.47Missouri Championship 2025: 0.99Kansas Air Capital Cubing 2025: 1.34Wichita Art Museum 2026: 1.73Wichita Air Capital Cubing 2026: 2.07Missouri Championship 2026: 2.11Kansas Championship 2026: 1.810.994.163 May 202414 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 2.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.