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Adam Carpenter

3×3 · top 0.52% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023CARP04

Adam Carpenter has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.06, set at Utah Puzzling for Awareness IV 2025, puts him in the top 0.52% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 352nd in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since March 2023, he has put 727 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.94 in March 2023 to 6.06, a 62% improvement. Adam has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.52% of 284,439 all-time
6.06
signature single · Utah Puzzling for Awareness IV 2025
727
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.067.43
top 0.52%352 / 59,724
2×21.452.68
top 1.9%778 / 40,951
5×550.9755.72
top 2.0%160 / 9,401
4×429.5033.78
top 2.6%416 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed13.1016.02
top 4.6%662 / 15,683
6×61:47.401:55.72
top 6.3%211 / 4,196
Pyraminx4.044.51
top 7.9%2,009 / 28,708
Megaminx59.761:06.87
top 9.9%682 / 7,841
Skewb3.946.02
top 10.5%1,609 / 18,907
7×73:07.773:12.55
top 12.6%346 / 3,184
Square-113.8917.01
top 13.9%947 / 6,743
Clock8.9710.11
top 19.8%1,516 / 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

Utah Megacomp 2023: 15.94Salt Lake Utah Summer 2023: 11.91Utah Valley Open 2023: 10.87Utah Snowball Bash 2023: 9.00Utah Ice Cubing 2024: 8.30Utah Newcomers 2024: 7.83Utah Valley Favorites 2024: 8.60Back to School Utah 2024: 7.91Utah Cubing with Culture 2024: 7.72Spanish Fork AM 2024: 7.28Utah Ice Cubing 2025: 6.10Utah Newcomers 2025: 7.10Utah Puzzling for Awareness IV 2025: 6.06Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.77Utah State University Fall 2025: 7.49Utah Championship 2025: 7.55Utah Cubing Classic 2026: 6.986.0615.9425 Mar 202323 May 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.