People · United States
Callender Smyth
2×2 · top 4.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2022 · 2022SMYT02
Callender Smyth has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.03, set at Cubing in the Ocean County 2025, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,986th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since September 2022, he has put 336 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.65 in September 2022 to 10.48, a 41% improvement. Callender has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 2.03 | 5.12 | top 4.9% | 1,986 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 10.48 | 14.24 | top 8.9% | 4,874 / 59,724 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.14 | 11.26 | top 14.1% | 3,683 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 26.97 | 31.72 | top 39.3% | 5,227 / 15,683 | |
| Skewb | 8.28 | 10.52 | top 43.4% | 7,621 / 18,907 | |
| 4×4 | 1:19.65 | — | top 55.6% | 9,531 / 19,072 | |
| Megaminx | 2:22.44 | — | top 57.7% | 4,331 / 7,841 | |
| Square-1 | 3:50.57 | — | early days — 1 solve | 6,756 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 5 Nov 2022First sub-15 3×3: 14.58 at Empire State Fall 2022.
- 3 Sep 2022First competition: Pretzel Mania 2022. A 19.70 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cubing in the Ocean County 2025 · 9 Aug 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024 · 9 Nov 2024 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024 · 12 Oct 2024
- Pretzel Mania Summer 2024 · 31 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- PBs in Palisades 2024 · 17 Feb 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Slow N Steady Fall 2023 · 7 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023
- Warwick Cube Day 2023 · 10 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Richmond Spring 2023 · 8 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Pretzel Mania 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 1 personal best set
- West Chester Fall 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Empire State Fall 2022 · 5 Nov 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Think In Fink Fall 2022 · 1 Oct 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Pretzel Mania 2022 · 3 Sep 2022 — 2 personal bests set
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.
- Adam Wachtel — met in 64 rounds, never finished ahead
- Will Callan — met in 63 rounds, never finished ahead
- Blake Thompson — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead twice
Next targets
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
Targets move as he improves.