People · United States
Clay Smith
3×3 · top 9.5% of 288,433 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022SMIT18
Clay Smith has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.67, set at Utah Championship 2022, puts him in the top 9.5% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,259th in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since May 2022, he has put 52 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.14 in May 2022 to 10.67, a 25% improvement. Clay has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.67 | 13.73 | top 9.5% | 5,259 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 3.96 | 5.19 | top 26.0% | 10,395 / 41,674 | |
| Skewb | 7.03 | 9.10 | top 34.0% | 5,800 / 19,164 | |
| Pyraminx | 9.47 | 12.39 | top 48.8% | 14,376 / 29,168 | |
| 5×5 | 2:23.60 | — | early days — 2 solves | 5,517 / 9,537 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 47.68 | — | top 74.6% | 10,955 / 15,900 | |
| 6×6 | 6:26.28 | — | early days — 1 solve | 3,935 / 4,262 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 20 May 2022First competition: Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022. A 18.03 3×3 single to start from.
- 20 May 2022First sub-15 3×3: 14.14 at Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022.
Competitions
- Utah Ice Cubing 2023 · 28 Jan 2023
- Utah Championship 2022 · 22 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022 · 20 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Hudson Rockwell Bertola — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Job Harvell — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Damian Wilding — met in 13 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
Targets move as he improves.