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Caleb Shearer

3×3 · top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023SHEA04

Caleb Shearer has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.06, set at Cubing in the 'Cuse 2025, puts him in the top 7.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,193rd in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since December 2023, he has put 182 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Caleb has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.06
signature single · Cubing in the 'Cuse 2025
182
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.0612.22
top 7.6%4,193 / 59,724
Skewb5.2810.23
top 20.3%3,240 / 18,907
Pyraminx6.308.68
top 22.2%5,977 / 28,708
5×51:27.591:39.16
top 25.4%1,979 / 9,401
2×23.954.67
top 25.9%10,161 / 40,951
4×452.3958.31
top 27.6%4,284 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed24.0930.88
top 31.7%4,119 / 15,683
Clock11.5312.48
top 32.7%2,568 / 8,927
Megaminx1:53.70
early days — 2 solves3,085 / 7,841
6×63:35.914:07.38
top 57.1%2,174 / 4,196
Square-145.71
top 71.9%4,729 / 6,743

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

Lake Placid 2023: 10.67Finger Lakes Fingertricks 2024: 12.24Cubing in the 'Cuse 2025: 10.06Puzzles in Pittsford 2026: 12.12ROC the Cube NY 2026: 10.8410.0612.242 Dec 202330 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 41 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Jake Oppedisano — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
  • Ethan Qiu — met in 30 rounds, finished ahead 6 times

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.06 away.
  • A sub-5 Skewb single — 13,285 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.