People · United States
Colby Smith
3×3 · top 0.43% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023SMIT57
Colby Smith has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.89, set at Lakewood Fall 2025, puts him in the top 0.43% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 292nd in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since July 2023, he has put 532 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 92% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.74 in July 2023 to 5.89, a 50% improvement. Colby has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% 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 | 5.89 | 7.46 | top 0.43% | 292 / 60,666 | |
| 4×4 | 27.56 | 32.52 | top 1.6% | 275 / 19,354 | |
| Clock | 4.10 | 5.29 | top 2.5% | 220 / 9,172 | |
| Pyraminx | 2.65 | 4.02 | top 2.6% | 698 / 29,168 | |
| 2×2 | 1.73 | 3.07 | top 3.3% | 1,286 / 41,674 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 12.75 | 17.74 | top 4.1% | 600 / 15,900 | |
| 5×5 | 58.58 | 1:02.01 | top 4.9% | 408 / 9,537 | |
| Megaminx | 49.62 | 51.95 | top 5.0% | 361 / 8,026 | |
| Square-1 | 11.53 | 14.62 | top 8.9% | 643 / 6,846 | |
| Skewb | 4.50 | 5.54 | top 14.5% | 2,288 / 19,164 | |
| 6×6 | 2:07.70 | 2:19.02 | top 14.5% | 531 / 4,262 | |
| 7×7 | 4:07.83 | 4:16.58 | top 33.7% | 961 / 3,236 |
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
- 8 Nov 2025Five personal bests in one day at Lakewood Fall 2025.
- 3 Jul 2025Five personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025.
- 28 Jun 2025Three personal bests in one day at Warm Up Seattle 2025.
- 18 Jan 2025Three personal bests in one day at Tacoma Winter 2025.
- 9 Nov 2024Four personal bests in one day at Olympia Fall 2024.
- 18 Jul 2024Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024.
Competitions
- Tacoma Fall 2026 · 10 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Dawgs at Denny UW 2026 · 9 May 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Lakewood Fall 2025 · 8 Nov 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 5 personal bests set
- Warm Up Seattle 2025 · 28 Jun 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Tacoma Winter 2025 · 18 Jan 2025 — 3 personal bests set
- Olympia Fall 2024 · 9 Nov 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024 · 18 Jul 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024 · 28 Jun 2024 — 8 personal bests set
- Tacoma Winter Twisters 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023 · 10 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Lucky Lynnwood 2023 · 30 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Bothell Summer 2023 · 8 Jul 2023
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.
- Anishk Arora — met in 93 rounds, finished ahead 49 times
- Ishaan Bansal — met in 87 rounds, finished ahead 70 times
- Sebastian Valdes — met in 83 rounds, finished ahead 75 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 3×3 single — 355 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
- A sub-25 4×4 single — 614 people have one; it is 2.56 away.
Targets move as he improves.