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Carter Carson

2×2 · top 11.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2017 · 2017CARS03

Carter Carson has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.75, set at Cubing Peoria 2020, puts him in the top 11.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,506th in the United States. Across 13 competitions since July 2017, he has put 319 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.07 in July 2017 to 12.31, a 59% improvement. Carter has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 11.5% of 186,767 all-time
2.75
signature single · Cubing Peoria 2020
319
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.754.19
top 11.5%4,506 / 40,951
3×312.3114.68
top 15.0%8,002 / 59,724
Skewb4.817.50
top 16.7%2,641 / 18,907
Pyraminx5.927.07
top 19.4%5,168 / 28,708
4×453.631:05.36
top 29.1%4,546 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed28.0637.86
top 42.1%5,652 / 15,683
Megaminx2:05.602:28.37
top 48.9%3,638 / 7,841
5×52:46.603:32.83
top 73.3%6,495 / 9,401

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

Hillcrest Cubing 2017: 30.07Bulldog Cubing 2017: 22.52ChicaGhosts 2017: 26.80Dixon Winter 2017: 20.99Dixon Spring 2018: 13.89CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2018: 14.50Coach Pigeon 2018: 16.15Wiscube 2018: 13.00CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2019: 12.70Chicago Area Twist Spring 2019: 14.06Copper Country Cubing Fall 2019: 13.21UIUC Fall 2019: 12.31Cubing Peoria 2020: 12.7212.3130.071 Jul 201716 Feb 2020

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.

  • Joshua Feran — met in 72 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Rachel Feran — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
  • CJ Sheng — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead once

Next targets

  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.