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Caleb Chen

3×3 · top 0.0088% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2022 · 2022CHEN37

Caleb Chen has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 3.71, set at CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.0088% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9th in the United States. Until November 2018, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 78 competitions since June 2022, he has put 2,429 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 7.34 in June 2022 to 3.71, a 49% improvement. Caleb has entered 78 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.0088% of 284,439 all-time
3.71
signature single · CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025
2,429
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×33.715.26
top 0.0088%9 / 59,724
2×20.591.17
top 0.035%13 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed7.4011.19
top 0.11%15 / 15,683
Clock2.983.82
top 0.72%70 / 8,927
Pyraminx3.515.28
top 5.5%1,432 / 28,708
Skewb3.365.52
top 6.9%1,064 / 18,907
4×438.8544.96
top 10.8%1,600 / 19,072

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

GA Cubers Pride 2022: 7.34CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 6.43GA Cubers Turkey Gobblers 2022: 6.52Music City Speedsolving 2023: 6.48Kendeda Kubing B 2023: 6.81Simpson Scramble 2023: 6.33AlphaCubing B 2023: 6.63Westminster Squanners Spring 2023: 6.00Concord Summer 2023: 6.56Fountain City 2023: 6.24Pickett's Mill Battlefield 2023: 5.34Hobcaw Cubing 2023: 5.16CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 5.35Going Fast in Franklin 2023: 5.75Staunton Speedsolving 2023: 5.48Clarks Hill Cubing 2023: 5.03Cuber Jackets Fall 2023: 5.95Rocky Top 2023: 5.03Fountain City Holiday Special 2023: 6.42Choo Choo Cubing A 2024: 5.28Cobb Cubes and Clocks 2024: 4.96Volunteer State Cubing 2024: 5.30Beat the Clock Westminster 2024: 5.24Clayton State Cubing 2024: 4.31Upstate Palmetto Puzzles 2024: 5.29Middle Georgia Speedsolving 2024: 5.39FSUbers 6.0 2024: 5.17Alabama Championship 2024: 5.46See Georgia: Lake Russell A 2024: 5.86Concord Summer 2024: 4.24Bama Big Cubes 2024: 4.67CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 4.83Rubik's North America All-Stars 2024: 4.84Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 5.90Beach Bash Jacksonville 2024: 3.79Scenic City Scramble TN 2024: 5.69FSUbers 7.0 2024: 5.44GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2024: 4.59Middle Georgia Gives Thanks 2024: 5.57Coosa Cubing Clash 2024: 5.22Solving in Savannah 2025: 5.72Charlotte Winter 2025: 5.27Cubing on the Plains at Auburn 2025: 5.37See Georgia: Cloudland Canyon A 2025: 5.13Queen City NC 2025: 4.82Atlanta Algs at AIS 2025: 5.57Alabama Crimson Cubing Spring 2025: 5.63GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2025: 5.16Middle Georgia Big Cube Showdown 2025: 5.16Skewbing in School Kennesaw 2025: 5.97Cubing in School Westminster 2025: 5.19Cube Against Cancer Roswell 2025: 5.26North Carolina Championship 2025: 5.33CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 3.71Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 5.47Fort Payne Summer 2025: 4.88Clemson Cube Catastrophe 2025: 4.99East Cobb Summer 2025: 5.19West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2025: 4.69Middle Georgia Mega Mania 2025: 5.39Atlanta Algs at AIS Autumn 2025: 5.50GA Cuber Jackets Fall 2025: 4.82Rubik's x TheCubicle CubingUSA All-Stars 2025: 4.87Georgia Championship 2026: 4.69Marietta Monday Mini I 2026: 5.84Marietta the Gathering 2026: 5.23Marietta Monday Mini II 2026: 5.00Middle Georgia March Madness 2026: 4.04Marietta Monday Mini III 2026: 4.28Cube Against Cancer Roswell 2026: 5.02CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 4.30GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2026: 4.96The Loveliest Solves on the Plains Auburn 2026: 5.08Cube Against Cancer Franklin 2026: 5.08GA Cubers Pride 2026: 4.53Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 4.19Fort Payne Summer 2026: 5.093.717.3411 Jun 202222 Aug 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-3 3×3 single — 3 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 one-handed single — 4 people have one; it is 1.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.