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Carter Swan

3×3 · top 0.91% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023SWAN03

Carter Swan has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.56, set at Kewbz UK Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.91% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 77th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since May 2023, he has put 1,483 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.16 in May 2023 to 6.56, a 57% improvement. Carter has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.91% of 284,439 all-time
6.56
signature single · Kewbz UK Championship 2026
1,483
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×36.569.03
top 0.91%77 / 6,689
Clock4.025.02
top 2.4%36 / 1,232
2×21.822.59
top 3.7%267 / 4,895
4×433.6638.33
top 5.5%130 / 2,071
Pyraminx3.756.57
top 6.5%253 / 3,656
Skewb3.426.64
top 7.2%159 / 2,421
5×51:06.201:10.35
top 9.1%120 / 1,151
Megaminx1:01.191:14.00
top 10.7%133 / 966
3×3 one-handed17.6721.50
top 14.2%266 / 1,851
Square-115.1320.55
top 16.8%166 / 778
6×62:19.772:35.57
top 20.3%120 / 548
7×74:01.364:24.27
top 31.2%150 / 459
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 1 solve181 / 372

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

Weston-super-Mare Spring 2023: 15.16Bristol Summer 2023: 13.64Wiltshire Autumn 2023: 10.44Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2023: 13.73Bristol Winter 2024: 11.59Wiltshire March 2024: 10.66Weston-super-Mare Spring 2024: 9.47Bristol Summer 2024: 7.87Stevenage October 2024: 9.21Rubik's UK Championship 2024: 8.57Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 10.14Weston-super-Mare Winter 2025: 9.12Wiltshire Spring 2025: 8.39Weston-super-Mare Spring 2025: 8.00Wiltshire Summer 2025: 7.86Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 9.23Bristol August 2025: 9.56Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2025: 8.82Hampshire Autumn 2025: 7.98Weston-super-Mare Winter 2026: 8.58Devon Winter 2026: 8.29Wiltshire Spring 2026: 7.19Weston-super-Mare Spring 2026: 7.93South Wales Summer 2026: 7.19Kewbz UK Championship 2026: 6.566.5615.1613 May 202328 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-4 Clock single — 741 people have one; it is 0.02 away.

Targets move as he improves.