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Daphne Blue Smith

3×3 · top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2021 · 2021SMIT17

Daphne Blue Smith has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.75, set at Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025, puts her in the top 2.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,378th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since December 2021, she has put 692 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 23.70 in December 2021 to 7.75, a 67% improvement. Daphne has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.75
signature single · Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025
692
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.7510.00
top 2.4%1,378 / 59,724
4×435.3243.71
top 7.0%1,083 / 19,072
Megaminx55.411:03.40
top 7.6%528 / 7,841
Pyraminx4.018.27
top 7.7%1,966 / 28,708
2×22.484.06
top 8.7%3,422 / 40,951
5×51:08.091:19.09
top 10.3%806 / 9,401
Skewb4.507.33
top 14.5%2,254 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed24.8832.00
top 33.9%4,462 / 15,683
Clock16.8219.41
top 54.8%4,544 / 8,927

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

Westview Winter A 2021: 23.70San Diego Spring 2022: 21.56A Bruin Cube Day 2022: 17.21Diamond Bar September 2022: 16.23Irvine Fall 2023: 11.35UCSD Winter 2023: 12.24Poway Cubing Winter 2024: 12.35USC Cubing 2024: 11.21Catalina Cube Mixer 2024: 10.69Orange County Newcomers 2024: 10.75Nub Open Yucaipa 2024: 9.33Temecula Valley Spring 2024: 11.17Agoura Cubing Returns 2024: 9.07Nub Open Mission Viejo Summer 2024: 9.99CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 11.01La La Land 2024: 10.56Temecula Valley Fall 2024: 10.72UCSD Fall 2024: 10.71Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2025: 10.49Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 7.75UCLA Spring 2025: 10.99Westview Cubing Favorites 2025: 8.68West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 10.78Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.58UCLA Summer 2025: 10.24Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025: 9.02Temecula Valley Winter 2025: 9.14Super Duper San Diego 2026: 7.84Temecula Valley Spring 2026: 9.927.7523.7011 Dec 20217 Mar 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.75 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 5.32 away.

Targets move as she improves.