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Waden Cho

3×3 · top 0.31% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016CHOW04

Waden Cho has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.65, set at Santa Ana Summer A 2023, puts him in the top 0.31% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 210th in the United States. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 49 competitions since June 2016, he has put 1,925 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 41.46 in June 2016 to 5.65, an 86% improvement. Waden has entered 49 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.31% of 284,439 all-time
5.65
signature single · Santa Ana Summer A 2023
1,925
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.657.32
top 0.31%210 / 59,724
4×424.6326.44
top 0.62%106 / 19,072
2×21.192.41
top 1.0%419 / 40,951
Pyraminx1.944.39
top 1.0%293 / 28,708
5×547.7151.79
top 1.2%103 / 9,401
Skewb2.344.74
top 2.3%348 / 18,907
Square-17.8910.58
top 2.9%209 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed12.1715.23
top 3.2%494 / 15,683
Megaminx49.8257.43
top 5.0%358 / 7,841
6×61:45.531:54.95
top 5.6%197 / 4,196
7×72:42.052:54.20
top 5.9%159 / 3,184
Clock9.1710.29
top 20.9%1,608 / 8,927

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

Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 41.46Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 23.13Severna Park Fall 2016: 21.59TJHSST Fall 2016: 25.96Rockville Winter 2017: 19.90Armin Open 2017: 19.65Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 20.84NovaCube 2017: 18.08CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 17.70Severna Park Summer 2017: 14.04Maryland 2017: 10.88TJHSST Fall 2017: 9.75Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 11.92River Hill Spring 2018: 8.41Tea Time Spring 2018: 9.79Maryland 2018: 9.51CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.95Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 8.97TJHSST Fall 2018: 8.83Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 8.96CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 8.85River Hill Spring 2019: 9.09Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 8.76CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 7.80Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 8.56TJHSST Fall 2019: 7.31Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 8.37Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 7.09Pittsburgh Fall 2021: 6.20DFW Cubing Spring 2022: 7.48River Hill Spring 2022: 6.14Dunkirk Spring A 2022: 6.77Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 6.72Owings Mills Summer 2022: 6.41CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 6.99Think In Fink Fall 2022: 6.51Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 7.21San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 6.95Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 6.42Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 6.55Potomac Spring 2023: 6.54Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 7.12CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 6.63CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 6.52Santa Ana Summer A 2023: 5.65Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 6.77Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 6.89Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 7.165.6541.4618 Jun 201622 Mar 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
  • A sub-20 4×4 single — 42 people have one; it is 4.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.