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Dylan Smith

3×3 · top 7.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022SMIT28

Dylan Smith has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.86, set at Tír Chonaill Cubing 2024, puts him in the top 7.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 112th in Ireland. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since July 2022, he has put 135 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.65 in July 2022 to 9.86, a 28% improvement. Dylan has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.86
signature single · Tír Chonaill Cubing 2024
135
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
3×39.8611.88
top 7.1%112 / 1,427
Pyraminx4.187.48
top 8.6%114 / 911
2×23.846.12
top 24.4%324 / 1,163
Clock14.3718.71
top 45.4%157 / 331
4×41:14.821:22.16
top 51.4%264 / 579

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

Cubing with the Cats Saturday 2022: 13.65Dublin Open Saturday 2022: 12.94Belfast Winter 2023: 11.08Tír Chonaill Cubing 2024: 9.869.8613.6523 Jul 202216 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 1.86 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.