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Desmond Carman

3×3 · top 1.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015CARM03

Desmond Carman has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.22, set at DFW Cubing Summer 2024, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 991st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since August 2015, he has put 887 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.32 in August 2015 to 7.22, an 83% improvement. Desmond has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.6% of 288,433 all-time
7.22
signature single · DFW Cubing Summer 2024
887
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.229.74
top 1.6%991 / 60,666
2×21.372.57
top 1.6%669 / 41,674
Pyraminx2.905.40
top 3.3%884 / 29,168
Skewb3.325.63
top 6.7%1,052 / 19,164
3×3 one-handed14.7216.66
top 7.6%1,026 / 15,900
4×440.6046.40
top 12.9%1,933 / 19,354
Clock7.5610.01
top 13.1%1,027 / 9,172
Square-117.8321.60
top 23.0%1,534 / 6,846
Megaminx1:28.041:38.40
top 27.0%1,899 / 8,026
5×51:31.891:42.33
top 29.0%2,301 / 9,537

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

Atlanta Open 2015: 42.32Alpharetta Open 2016: 36.53Yeehaw 2017: 37.48Southeast Texas Winter 2019: 23.36Lone Star Cubing 2019: 20.44Houston Winter 2020: 17.09Houston Fall 2022: 10.74CubingUSA Texas Championship 2022: 12.29Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 9.40Houston Spring Side Events 2023: 11.54CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 10.10Space City Summer 2023: 9.88DFW Cubing Summer 2023: 8.99Brazos Cubing Fall 2023: 7.92DFW Cubing Fall 2023: 8.12Space City Winter 2024: 9.74Cube Against Cancer Texas 2024: 8.42Turning at Tompkins Spring 2024: 7.98Don't Pop Austin 2024: 9.15DFW Cubing Summer 2024: 7.22Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 8.43Brazos Cubing Fall 2024: 8.177.2242.328 Aug 201520 Oct 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.

  • Matt Lee — met in 105 rounds, finished ahead 41 times
  • Ryan Pilat — met in 104 rounds, finished ahead once
  • RJ Gohn — met in 89 rounds, finished ahead 31 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.22 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.