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Casey Ding

3×3 · top 0.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022DING07

Casey Ding has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.64, set at Ephrata Fall 2025, puts him in the top 0.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 206th in the United States. Until March 2013, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since October 2022, he has put 390 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.57 in October 2022 to 5.64, a 66% improvement. Casey has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.3% of 284,439 all-time
5.64
signature single · Ephrata Fall 2025
390
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.647.95
top 0.3%206 / 59,724
2×21.922.91
top 4.2%1,685 / 40,951
4×443.1748.69
top 16.0%2,423 / 19,072
Pyraminx6.528.33
top 24.0%6,527 / 28,708

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

Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 16.57Pretzel Mania 2023: 11.26Warwick Cube Day 2023: 10.58Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 9.81ALL1- Pittsburgh 2023: 8.51PBs in Palisades 2024: 8.92It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 8.05Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 7.92Kewbz UK Open 2024: 6.28Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 8.40Rutgers Winter 2025: 7.89Pittsburgh Winter 2025: 8.01King of Prussia Spring 2025: 7.63Bucks County Cubing AM 2025: 7.45Ephrata Fall 2025: 5.64Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 7.27PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 7.67Ephrata Spring 2026: 7.10New Providence Spring AM 2026: 7.06Cape May Summer A 2026: 6.32King of Prussia Summer 2026: 7.245.6416.5729 Oct 202225 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.64 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.92 away.

Targets move as he improves.