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Carter Williams

Clock · top 0.32% of 32,048 all-time · competing since July 2021 · 2021WILL06

Carter Williams has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.60, set at Newark Academy Spring 2024, puts him in the top 0.32% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 32nd in the United States. Until January 2024, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 92 competitions since July 2021, he has put 4,107 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.07 in July 2021 to 6.08, a 50% improvement. Carter has entered 92 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.32% of 32,048 all-time
2.60
signature single · Newark Academy Spring 2024
4,107
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock2.603.57
top 0.32%32 / 8,927
3×36.087.77
top 0.53%358 / 59,724
Megaminx35.6340.03
top 0.72%51 / 7,841
Pyraminx1.844.19
top 0.89%252 / 28,708
5×547.9555.49
top 1.3%111 / 9,401
4×426.7830.51
top 1.3%219 / 19,072
2×21.462.95
top 2.0%793 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed12.3815.77
top 3.5%529 / 15,683
Square-18.7814.22
top 4.1%309 / 6,743
Skewb2.995.70
top 4.9%771 / 18,907
6×61:44.741:52.42
top 5.4%186 / 4,196
7×73:02.813:12.16
top 11.4%312 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves—
early days — 2 solves738 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded2:00.58—
early days — 3 solves691 / 2,092

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

Empire State Summer A 2021: 12.07Babylon Fall 2021: 10.05Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 10.59Empire State Winter B 2022: 8.19Cape Fear 2022: 8.59Empire State Spring 2022: 7.73Dunkirk Spring A 2022: 9.48Three Attempts Chicago 2022: 9.30New York Championship 2022: 8.72Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 8.40East Brunswick Open 2022: 8.93St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 7.54Westport Summer 2022: 8.03Amherst Open 2022: 7.93Babylon Summer 2022: 7.34Think In Fink Fall 2022: 8.41Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 8.27Empire State Fall 2022: 7.61River Hill Fall 2022: 8.90New York Yopen 2022: 8.37West Chester Fall 2022: 6.84Troy Story 2023: 6.60Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 7.89Empire State Winter Whirl 2023: 8.47Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 7.71NJIT Spring 2023: 7.44South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 8.42GCU Spring 2023: 7.31North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023: 7.40CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 7.64Jay House of Cubes 2023: 7.55CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.51Naperville Summer 2023: 8.41Newark's On Track 2023: 7.93Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 8.33Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023: 7.87Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 7.22Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 8.28Princeton Fall 2023: 6.91Manhattan Mini B 2023: 8.59New York New Year 2024: 8.24GCU Winter 2024: 7.23Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 7.63Parsippany Mini AM 2024: 8.56Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024: 7.57PBs in Palisades 2024: 8.04Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 7.89New-Cumberland County 2024: 8.08Ridgefield Spring 2024: 7.07South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 7.71It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 7.50Spring into Summit 2024: 7.48North Jersey Speedsolving B 2024: 7.73New Jersey Championship 2024: 8.04Newark Academy Spring 2024: 7.23Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 6.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 7.72CubingUSA New England Championship 2024: 7.78Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 7.51An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 7.12CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 7.16Pop Off Princeton 2025: 7.58PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 6.62Flushing Glow Open PM 2025: 7.03Liberty Science Center Open A 2025: 7.36NYU Spring 2025: 7.99PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 7.35Summit Summer 2025: 6.88Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 6.53Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 7.63Fort Lee Summer 2025: 6.74Bucks County Cubing PM 2025: 6.08Flushing Glow Autumn PM 2025: 7.10Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 7.22PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 7.43PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 7.60NYU Spring 2026: 6.87Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 7.866.0812.0731 Jul 20212 Jul 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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 517 rounds, finished ahead 201 times
  • Ayden Dincher — met in 447 rounds, finished ahead 169 times
  • Shaun Mack — met in 434 rounds, finished ahead 91 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Clock single — 17 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.