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Callan Gilchrist

3×3 · top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2023 · 2023GILC02

Callan Gilchrist has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.35, set at Penn Cube Day Fall 2024, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,939th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since April 2023, he has put 590 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.12 in April 2023 to 8.35, a 48% improvement. Callan has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.35
signature single · Penn Cube Day Fall 2024
590
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.3510.64
top 3.4%1,939 / 59,724
2×21.993.17
top 4.7%1,867 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed14.9019.80
top 7.9%1,064 / 15,683
Pyraminx4.318.05
top 9.2%2,391 / 28,708
Skewb4.297.75
top 13.0%2,009 / 18,907
Clock7.779.33
top 14.1%1,074 / 8,927
4×443.7351.40
top 16.7%2,532 / 19,072
Square-117.4824.76
top 22.1%1,461 / 6,743
Megaminx1:26.021:35.93
top 25.6%1,765 / 7,841
5×51:32.061:38.01
top 29.0%2,283 / 9,401
6×63:08.513:18.62
top 44.9%1,657 / 4,196
7×75:11.585:43.35
top 54.3%1,595 / 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

PBs in Palisades 2023: 16.12South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 18.82Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 13.47Princeton Fall 2023: 12.83Manhattan Mini A 2023: 11.92Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 13.17Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 8.74South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 11.74Spring into Summit 2024: 10.65New Jersey Championship 2024: 11.53Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 10.89Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 9.41Penn Cube Day Fall 2024: 8.35Pop Off Princeton 2025: 9.76PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 9.63Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 9.92King of Prussia Spring 2025: 9.44Bucks County Cubing AM 2025: 10.27CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 10.088.3518.8215 Apr 202330 Aug 2025

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.35 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.