Ethan Vovan, a sophomore, is a ‘Speed Cuber.’

A ‘speed cuber’ solves Rubrik’s Cubes for sport, and Vovan has been in the game for a year competitively.

After being fascinated by watching others, in the fifth grade, he began practicing for fun. He now holds an average record of 12 seconds to solve a cube and a personal best record of 8.8 seconds!

These competitions are a co-ed sport with competitors ranging from all ages. Your score is an average from five attempts with the same cube; your best and worst time is dropped and the median is taken from the three.

There is a world cube association that holds the national, state, continental and international rankings. Vovan is now 32nd in California for single and ranked 70th for his average.  

Vovan wants the Speed Cuber sport to grow and claimed that ”the difficulty is a major misconception because, like anything else we want to or choose to learn, we have the resources available.”