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Colin Barney

2×2 · top 2.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021BARN03

Colin Barney has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.60, set at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024, puts him in the top 2.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,011th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since November 2021, he has put 490 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.57 in November 2021 to 8.13, a 66% improvement. Colin has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.6% of 186,767 all-time
1.60
signature single · Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024
490
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.603.97
top 2.6%1,011 / 40,951
3×38.1310.77
top 3.0%1,714 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.173.94
top 4.2%1,119 / 28,708
Skewb4.115.37
top 11.6%1,807 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed17.3722.17
top 13.5%1,749 / 15,683
4×449.8555.71
top 24.5%3,746 / 19,072
Square-119.6426.99
top 27.2%1,784 / 6,743
5×51:43.331:49.29
top 37.8%3,023 / 9,401
Megaminx2:16.78—
top 54.7%4,100 / 7,841
6×63:36.944:00.76
top 57.5%2,191 / 4,196
Clock17.9521.11
top 58.6%4,902 / 8,927
7×76:30.69—
early days — 1 solve2,318 / 3,184

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

CubingUSA Western Championship 2021: 23.57Southern Utah Summer 2022: 17.13Utah Championship 2022: 12.96Utah Megacomp 2023: 9.89Back to School Utah 2023: 10.30Utah Valley Open 2023: 12.16Utah Championship 2023: 12.16Beckman Gets Big 2023: 9.86Utah Ice Cubing 2024: 11.31Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2024: 9.35Utah Newcomers 2024: 11.16Utah Puzzling for Awareness 2024: 10.16CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024: 10.41Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.39Utah Ice Cubing 2025: 11.20Tooele Open A 2025: 8.138.1323.5726 Nov 202118 Jul 2025

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.