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Zak Couch

2×2 · top 3.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023COUC01

Zak Couch has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.75, set at Temecula Valley Spring 2024, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,289th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since April 2023, he has put 1,108 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.38 in April 2023 to 9.00, a 58% improvement. Zak has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.3% of 186,767 all-time
1.75
signature single · Temecula Valley Spring 2024
1,108
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.753.71
top 3.3%1,289 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.986.77
top 3.6%946 / 28,708
3×39.009.98
top 4.9%2,722 / 59,724
Skewb3.797.04
top 9.5%1,451 / 18,907
4×441.6949.51
top 14.1%2,101 / 19,072
5×51:30.541:39.46
top 27.8%2,180 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed22.7826.29
top 28.2%3,638 / 15,683
Megaminx1:33.891:45.18
top 30.6%2,154 / 7,841
Clock11.3913.38
top 32.1%2,510 / 8,927
6×63:34.97—
top 56.7%2,154 / 4,196
Square-12:58.14—
early days — 2 solves6,750 / 6,743

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

Bobcat Battle 2023: 21.38Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 18.83Vegas Speedcubing Summer 2023: 17.68Cubing in Glendale 2023: 16.80Corona Summer 2023: 17.05Beckman Gets Big 2023: 16.28UCSD Winter 2024: 15.73University Heights Cubing Winter 2024: 17.85Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2024: 15.47Fullerton Winter 2024: 13.84Bobcat Battle Newcomers 2024: 15.49Los Angeles Newcomers 2024: 15.85Temecula Valley Spring 2024: 14.16Vegas Cubing Cup Spring 2024: 14.61Agoura Cubing Returns 2024: 14.03CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 12.32La La Land 2024: 12.47Aliso Niguel Summer 2024: 14.68Vegas Cubing Cup Fall 2024: 12.60UCSD Fall 2024: 9.90Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 9.49UCLA Spring 2025: 10.70Let's Cube Long Beach 2025: 11.11West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 9.00Mission Viejo Fall 2025: 9.85Rocky Mountain Championship 2025: 9.09Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 9.21Super Duper San Diego 2026: 10.43Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 9.73Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2026: 9.52West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 10.05Agoura Summer 2026: 9.08Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 10.04Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 9.45Temecula Valley Back To School 2026: 9.049.0021.381 Apr 202322 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 0.75 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.