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Caleb Retik

3×3 · top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022RETI01

Caleb Retik has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.63, set at CubingUSA New England Championship 2025, puts him in the top 0.96% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 606th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since May 2022, he has put 1,553 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.33 in May 2022 to 6.63, a 46% improvement. Caleb has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.96% of 284,439 all-time
6.63
signature single · CubingUSA New England Championship 2025
1,553
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.638.53
top 0.96%606 / 59,724
3×3 blindfolded24.241:16.05
top 2.7%52 / 2,092
Pyraminx3.295.47
top 4.6%1,214 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed13.9816.38
top 6.1%845 / 15,683
4×434.2537.90
top 6.1%937 / 19,072
2×22.213.29
top 6.3%2,504 / 40,951
5×51:06.401:12.53
top 9.2%724 / 9,401
Square-111.9720.31
top 9.8%691 / 6,743
3×3 Multi-Blind11 of 11 cubes · 52:33—
top 14.2%104 / 731
4×4 blindfolded5:20.556:29.12
top 24.4%99 / 440
5×5 blindfolded14:06.00—
top 37.4%75 / 218
3×3 Fewest Moves38 moves49.33
top 40.9%879 / 2,040

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

Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022: 12.33CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 11.89Fast In Mass 2022: 12.75Cubing in Beverly 2022: 13.09Amherst Open 2022: 13.24Naticube 2022: 11.12Loon Cubikon 2022: 12.45Cubing in Cambridge 2022: 11.32Puzzling in Providence 2023: 10.16Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023: 10.11Garden City Winter 2023: 10.79Northampton Winter A 2023: 9.61Cubing in Cambridge 2023: 10.12New Hampshire Spring 2023: 9.48Return to Quabbin 2023: 10.23Brookline Favorites 2023: 9.58CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 7.82Northampton Fall B 2023: 9.21Loon Cubikon 2023: 9.30The Battle of Lexington 2024: 9.73WPI Winter 2024: 9.42Naticube 2024: 9.88Cubing at the Y - Stoughton 2024: 8.69Saint John's Showdown 2024: 9.12Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 8.15Lexington Weeknights VI 2024: 9.30CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 8.83Wakefield Winter 2024: 9.07Fitchburg Fingertricks 2025: 8.02Cambridge Cube Clash 2025: 7.69The Battle of Lexington Semiquincentennial 2025: 8.03Saint John's Warm Up 2025: 8.62Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.74Championnat Canadien 2025: 8.06CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 6.63Lexington Weeknights V 2025: 8.61UMass Spring 2026: 7.00Quabbin Spring 2026: 7.70Saint John's Summer 2026: 9.08Hampton Beach Summer 2026: 8.046.6313.247 May 20221 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 blindfolded single — 166 people have one; it is 4.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.