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Corbin McKay

3×3 · top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2014 · 2014MCKA01

Corbin McKay has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.71, set at CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,342nd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since January 2014, he has put 538 official solves on the record across eleven 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 12.90 in January 2014 to 8.71, a 32% improvement. Corbin has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.71
signature single · CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023
538
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
3×38.7110.56
top 4.2%2,342 / 59,724
4×436.3443.87
top 8.0%1,212 / 19,072
5×51:12.581:20.43
top 13.5%1,034 / 9,401
2×23.014.65
top 14.3%5,641 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed19.2628.85
top 18.5%2,385 / 15,683
7×73:33.343:49.79
top 20.9%594 / 3,184
6×62:31.902:35.90
top 26.6%936 / 4,196
Megaminx1:37.861:53.96
top 33.3%2,356 / 7,841
Pyraminx9.2213.62
top 46.7%13,453 / 28,708
Skewb9.3112.19
top 50.6%9,052 / 18,907
3×3 Fewest Moves51 moves
early days — 1 solve1,655 / 2,040

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

Houston Winter Open 2014: 12.90Keep Austin Weird 2014: 11.22Dallas Back to School 2015: 11.70South East Texas Open 2016: 11.49South East Texas Open 2017: 11.17Don't Mess With Texas 2017: 11.76Texas Two-Day Showdown 2017: 9.89Southern Championships 2017: 10.52Yeehaw 2017: 10.41Longhorn Fall 2018: 10.18CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 8.71Austin NxN 2024: 9.478.7112.904 Jan 20142 Nov 2024

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 6.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.