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Cale Schoon

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time · competing since March 2014 · 2014SCHO02

Cale Schoon has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 18 moves, set at North Star Cubing Challenge 2020, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in the United States. Across 94 competitions since March 2014, he has put 4,086 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.51 in March 2014 to 6.62, a 62% improvement. Cale has entered 94 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time
18 moves
signature single · North Star Cubing Challenge 2020
4,086
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves18 moves20.67
top 0.17%5 / 2,040
Skewb1.412.53
top 0.32%53 / 18,907
2×21.012.31
top 0.58%240 / 40,951
3×36.627.94
top 0.96%601 / 59,724
3×3 Multi-Blind32 of 34 cubes · 57:53—
top 1.5%14 / 731
4×4 blindfolded1:50.302:02.61
top 2.0%8 / 440
5×5 blindfolded3:52.325:00.63
top 2.0%4 / 218
Square-17.499.70
top 2.4%172 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded23.9931.82
top 2.6%48 / 2,092
Pyraminx2.794.34
top 3.0%796 / 28,708
4×430.7235.24
top 3.3%528 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed12.6916.07
top 4.0%579 / 15,683
5×51:03.271:09.40
top 7.3%579 / 9,401
Clock6.607.24
top 9.5%733 / 8,927
Megaminx1:01.921:10.82
top 11.0%745 / 7,841
6×62:03.862:13.40
top 12.6%463 / 4,196
7×73:28.893:37.96
top 19.4%550 / 3,184

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

Dixon Spring 2014: 17.51Iowa Corn Lovers 2014: 17.69Dixon Summer 2014: 13.17Wiscube 2014: 15.66Cubetcha 2014: 15.75Fabulous Minnesota Competition 2015: 14.55Field of Cubes 2015: 13.13US Nationals 2015: 12.16Kansas City Cubing 2015: 10.65KCubing Spring 2016: 10.42Clock N' Other Stuff 2016: 10.10Indiana 2016: 9.49US Nationals 2016: 8.82KCubing Summer 2016: 8.60Lawrence Fall 2016: 9.31KCubing Winter 2017: 8.04Iowa State Spring 2017: 8.59Minnesota Cube Melt 2017: 8.79South Omaha Speedsolve 2017: 9.60CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 7.67Heartland Championships 2017: 8.48St. Boois 2017: 8.13KCubing Fall 2017: 8.63North Iowa 2017: 8.60Lions Cubing 2018: 8.30North Star Cubing Challenge 2018: 7.63CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2018: 8.75CubeIowa 2018: 8.13Gateway Ravioli Spring 2018: 7.96CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 7.40Madison Blind N Stuff 2018: 8.75Independence Cube Day 2018: 7.11Mega Minnesota Winter 2018: 7.42North Star Cubing Challenge 2019: 8.18West Branch 2019: 8.36CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2019: 9.68West Branch Summer 2019: 7.41CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.193x3 Only Minnesota 2019: 7.89North Liberty 2019: 7.62North Star Cubing Challenge 2020: 8.07Florida 2020: 8.51Cubetcha B 2021: 7.30North Star Cubing Challenge 2022: 7.96CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2022: 7.79Cubing Peoria 2022: 6.94Cubetcha 2022: 7.59Iowa Fall 2022: 7.51Dubuque Winter 2023: 8.13Everything in Evanston A 2023: 7.12Minnesota Cube Melt 2023: 8.15CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.01Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2024: 6.62Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.87Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2025: 8.44Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.98Quad Cities Saturday 2025: 6.97CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2026: 8.336.6217.6929 Mar 201422 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-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.01 away.

Targets move as he improves.