People · United States
Carter Lau
2×2 · top 3.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022LAUC02
Carter Lau has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.70, set at Aliso Niguel Summer 2024, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,192nd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since December 2022, he has put 365 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.05 in December 2022 to 9.64, a 31% improvement. Carter has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% 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 | 1.70 | 3.16 | top 3.1% | 1,192 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.44 | 5.01 | top 5.2% | 1,364 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 | 9.64 | 11.33 | top 6.5% | 3,571 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 4.00 | 6.03 | top 10.9% | 1,680 / 18,907 | |
| Clock | 10.30 | 11.73 | top 26.6% | 2,049 / 8,927 | |
| 4×4 | 55.72 | 1:03.03 | top 31.6% | 4,994 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 31.47 | 38.11 | top 50.0% | 6,890 / 15,683 |
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
- 8 Sep 2024Four personal bests in one day at Aliso Niguel Summer 2024.
- 24 Sep 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.64 at Irvine Fall 2023.
- 24 Sep 2023Three personal bests in one day at Irvine Fall 2023.
- 31 Dec 2022First competition: San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022. A 14.05 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025 · 30 Mar 2025
- Aliso Niguel Summer 2024 · 8 Sep 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Agoura Cubing Returns 2024 · 15 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Los Angeles Newcomers 2024 · 30 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- San Diego Newcomers 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Poway Cubing Winter 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Beckman Gets Big 2023 · 10 Dec 2023
- Thankful for Cubing RPV 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Irvine Fall 2023 · 24 Sep 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Agoura Cubing Again 2023 · 22 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Give Back RPV 2023 · 29 Apr 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Oak Valley Winter A 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022 · 31 Dec 2022
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.
- August Barnard — met in 65 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
- Kyeongmin Choi (최경민) — met in 65 rounds, never finished ahead
- Ethan Yeh — met in 57 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.70 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.44 away.
Targets move as he improves.