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Calvin Balzer

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 9.9% of 12,294 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015BALZ01

Calvin Balzer has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 28 moves, set at Oregon Championship 2023, puts him in the top 9.9% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 229th in the United States. Across 26 competitions since January 2015, he has put 806 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.35 in March 2019 to 11.21, a 62% improvement. Calvin has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 9.9% of 12,294 all-time
28 moves
signature single · Oregon Championship 2023
806
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves47.00
top 9.9%229 / 2,040
3×311.2114.25
top 11.1%6,031 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.687.96
top 11.3%2,938 / 28,708
Skewb4.595.85
top 15.1%2,375 / 18,907
Square-114.5418.20
top 15.3%1,034 / 6,743
2×24.074.78
top 27.4%10,817 / 40,951
4×452.381:03.50
top 27.6%4,281 / 19,072
Clock10.7812.06
top 29.0%2,252 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed23.7630.14
top 30.8%3,989 / 15,683
Megaminx1:48.452:07.86
top 39.5%2,846 / 7,841
5×52:16.712:28.06
top 59.2%5,069 / 9,401
3×3 blindfolded5:05.72—
early days — 1 solve1,663 / 2,092
6×65:24.18—
early days — 2 solves3,505 / 4,196

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 Oregon Championship 2019: 29.35Lincoln City 2019: 21.76CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2019: 15.77Gaston Toe Twiddling 2019: 14.94Puget Sound Fall 2019: 14.43Keep Portland Weird 2019: 13.61Washington Championship 2020: 12.03PDX Cubing for Causes 2020: 13.74Oregon State Leap Day 2020: 12.19Stumptown Speedcubing Summer 2023: 14.11Oregon Championship 2023: 14.47Couve Cubing Fall 2024: 15.74Hillsboro Winter 2025: 13.72Cubing in Southern Oregon 2025: 13.01Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025: 14.63Corvallis 2025: 12.88Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 16.04Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025: 14.53Oregon Championship 2025: 11.21UO Fall 2025: 13.7711.2129.358 Mar 201918 Oct 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.21 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.68 away.

Targets move as he improves.