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Caleb Merritt

Clock · top 1.5% of 32,817 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022MERR04

Caleb Merritt has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.53, set at Round Rock Mega Cube Day 2026, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 147th in the United States. Until July 2018, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since July 2022, he has put 642 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.69 in July 2022 to 7.50, a 60% improvement. Caleb has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 1.5% of 32,817 all-time
3.53
signature single · Round Rock Mega Cube Day 2026
642
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock3.534.07
top 1.5%147 / 9,172
3×37.5010.11
top 2.0%1,211 / 60,666
Skewb2.724.61
top 3.7%596 / 19,164
2×22.113.22
top 5.6%2,245 / 41,674
Pyraminx3.545.39
top 5.6%1,473 / 29,168
4×437.7043.02
top 9.5%1,446 / 19,354
5×51:13.951:26.02
top 14.6%1,136 / 9,537
Megaminx1:15.851:34.31
top 19.2%1,327 / 8,026
3×3 one-handed21.5324.97
top 24.7%3,228 / 15,900
6×63:11.473:40.70
top 46.5%1,759 / 4,262
7×75:04.55—
early days — 3 solves1,542 / 3,236

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

CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 18.69Houston Spring Side Events 2023: 18.46Space City Summer 2023: 10.62Cube Against Cancer Texas 2024: 10.88Turning at Tompkins Spring 2024: 10.44Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 7.50Texas Championship 2024: 9.97Space City Winter TX 2025: 10.54Houston Back to School 2025: 9.73Space City Fall TX 2025: 10.34Texas Championship 2025: 9.05Cube Against Cancer Houston 2026: 8.53GAN Southern Championship 2026: 10.19Hillister Cube Hustle 2026: 9.43Round Rock Mega Cube Day 2026: 7.517.5018.6929 Jul 20225 Sep 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 Clock single — 248 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.