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Ari Jex Smith
2×2 · top 37.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2025 · 2025SMIT58
Ari Jex Smith has been competing for 9 months. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 4.86, set at Utah Snowball Bash 2025, puts him in the top 37.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15,007th in the United States. Across 1 competition since December 2025, he has put 15 official solves on the record across two events.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 4.86 | 7.46 | top 37.5% | 15,007 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 21.56 | 25.23 | top 44.2% | 25,468 / 59,724 |
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 story so far
- 13 Dec 2025First competition: Utah Snowball Bash 2025. A 21.56 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Utah Snowball Bash 2025 · 13 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Deacon Blanchard — met in 3 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Malachi Jones — met in 3 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Grey Jennings — met in 3 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.86 away.
- A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.