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Charles Darrington

Clock · top 2.1% of 32,048 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019DARR02

Charles Darrington has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 3.89, set at Bucks County Cubing PM 2025, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 181st in the United States. Until June 2015, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 50 competitions since June 2019, he has put 1,762 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.15 in June 2019 to 8.82, a 72% improvement. Charles has entered 50 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 2.1% of 32,048 all-time
3.89
signature single · Bucks County Cubing PM 2025
1,762
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock3.895.28
top 2.1%181 / 8,927
2×21.853.60
top 3.9%1,513 / 40,951
Skewb2.874.77
top 4.4%671 / 18,907
3×38.8211.28
top 4.5%2,481 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.636.30
top 6.0%1,538 / 28,708
4×438.4645.47
top 10.3%1,529 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed18.2721.66
top 15.8%2,039 / 15,683
Megaminx1:12.511:17.58
top 17.2%1,167 / 7,841
Square-115.6020.89
top 17.8%1,207 / 6,743
5×51:18.541:26.31
top 18.0%1,380 / 9,401
6×62:23.162:40.61
top 22.1%781 / 4,196
7×74:00.914:20.57
top 31.1%863 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:03.912:41.26
top 34.6%717 / 2,092
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves—
early days — 3 solves1,178 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 23:21—
early days — 2 solves639 / 731

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

Arcadia Summer 2019: 31.15Empire State Summer A 2021: 14.08Pretzel Mania 2022: 12.19Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 15.67River Hill Spring 2024: 11.09Spring into Summit 2024: 11.59North Jersey Speedsolving A 2024: 12.25New Jersey Championship 2024: 11.11Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 12.42Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.58Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 11.65East Berlin Favorites PA 2024: 11.74CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 10.18ALL1- Empire State 2024: 11.14Happy Valley Fall PA 2024: 11.55River Hill Fall 2024: 10.92Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 11.08Kisco Cubing 2025: 8.91Pop Off Princeton 2025: 11.01Puzzles in Pottsville 2025: 9.54Rutgers Winter 2025: 12.79PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 12.71Great Peconic Bay 2025: 11.40Tipping Point Bloomsburg 2025: 11.73River Hill Spring 2025: 10.04King of Prussia Spring 2025: 8.82East Berlin Eccentric Blocks PA 2025: 10.68Puzzles in Pottsville Spring 2025: 11.25Berwick Spring 2025: 9.74Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 12.17Bucks County Cubing PM 2025: 11.83CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 9.53Ephrata Fall 2025: 11.54Penn Cube Day Fall 2025: 12.35Lodi Solves Spring 2026: 10.55Ephrata Spring 2026: 10.84RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026: 12.73Cherry Hill Mini May 2026: 9.11LCCC Cubing Summer 2026: 11.31King of Prussia Summer 2026: 11.84Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 12.418.8231.1522 Jun 201914 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-3 Clock single — 239 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.