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Carter Marshall

3×3 · top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022IVCA01

Carter Marshall has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.77, set at Oredigger Open 2024, puts him in the top 4.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,420th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since November 2022, he has put 1,006 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.97 in November 2022 to 8.77, a 66% improvement. Carter has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.77
signature single · Oredigger Open 2024
1,006
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.7711.22
top 4.3%2,420 / 59,724
Square-110.7513.94
top 7.4%539 / 6,743
Skewb3.556.68
top 8.0%1,239 / 18,907
2×22.454.04
top 8.4%3,319 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.408.11
top 9.7%2,514 / 28,708
Megaminx1:06.131:11.22
top 13.4%912 / 7,841
Clock7.9710.06
top 15.1%1,159 / 8,927
4×443.0549.42
top 15.8%2,396 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed21.8527.37
top 25.6%3,306 / 15,683
5×51:40.951:49.30
top 36.1%2,871 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,364 / 2,040
6×64:44.065:05.66
top 78.2%3,112 / 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

Loveland Fall 2022: 25.97Mile High Megacomp 2023: 16.44Colorado Mountain Tour - Golden 2023: 14.32Colorado Mountain Tour - Frisco 2023: 14.44Colorado Mountain Tour - Avon 2023: 15.45FoCo Cubing 2023: 12.94Don't Fall Off Pikes Peak 2023: 13.83Unorthodox Blocks Colorado 2023: 15.99Centennial State Cube-Off 2023: 12.40Mountaineer Madness 2023: 12.96Colorado Pastacomp 2023: 11.74The Art of the Cube Colorado 2023: 12.81Rocky Mountain Warm-Up 2023: 12.39CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2023: 11.96Pillar of Fire Colorado 2023: 11.42Colorado Cold Hands Showdown 2023: 10.66USAFA Flyby Cubing 2023: 11.14Happy Holidays Colorado 2023: 9.20DeNxNver 2024: 9.88Barely Awake Boulder 2024: 14.05Oredigger Open 2024: 8.77Spring Madness Colorado 2024: 10.76Cherry on Top Colorado AM 2024: 10.32Colorado Mountain Tour - Frisco 2024: 11.91Colorado Mountain Tour - Avon 2024: 12.43Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 12.21Cubing with an Altitude Colorado 2024: 10.15Rocky Mountain Championship 2026: 11.468.7725.975 Nov 202221 Aug 2026

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 0.77 away.
  • A sub-10 Square-1 single — 1,533 people have one; it is 0.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.