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Archie Smith

3×3 · top 22.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2024 · 2024SMIT05

Archie Smith has been competing for 3 years. Their best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.41, set at North-East Melbourne March Saturday 2026, puts them in the top 22.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,020th in Australia. Across 14 competitions since January 2024, they have put 139 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Their 3×3 best has come down from 23.43 in January 2024 to 14.41, a 38% improvement. Archie has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 22.4% of 284,439 all-time
14.41
signature single · North-East Melbourne March Saturday 2026
139
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×314.4119.05
top 22.4%2,020 / 11,709
2×23.976.33
top 26.1%2,031 / 8,567
Skewb9.6817.44
top 52.9%1,715 / 3,534

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

Melbourne Summer 2024: 23.43Altona Algorithms 2024: 22.95Kensington May Sunday 2024: 20.87Spark Melbourne Spring Saturday 2024: 21.16Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 21.96Melbourne Summer 2025: 20.47Spark Melbourne February 2025: 20.01VIC State Championship 2025: 23.76Puzzling Pakenham Saturday 2025: 20.66Melbourne Cube Days 2025: 23.86Melbourne Summer 2026: 16.40North-East Melbourne March Saturday 2026: 14.41West Melbourne Open 2026: 18.41Australian Nationals 2026: 16.5514.4123.8619 Jan 20249 Jul 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.41 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.97 away.

Targets move as they improves.