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Eli Smith

4×4 · top 2.0% of 83,917 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022SMIT29

Eli Smith has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 28.42, set at CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 327th in the United States. Until April 2012, no official 4×4 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since July 2022, he has put 1,330 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.74 in July 2022 to 8.10, a 25% improvement. Eli has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 2.0% of 83,917 all-time
28.42
signature single · CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025
1,330
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
4×428.4231.68
top 2.0%327 / 19,072
Skewb2.344.62
top 2.3%348 / 18,907
3×38.109.54
top 3.0%1,684 / 59,724
5×554.0659.31
top 3.1%253 / 9,401
Square-19.1712.57
top 4.7%350 / 6,743
6×61:44.761:53.64
top 5.4%187 / 4,196
Pyraminx3.517.51
top 5.5%1,432 / 28,708
7×72:41.333:03.55
top 5.8%155 / 3,184
2×22.253.55
top 6.6%2,616 / 40,951
Clock6.958.27
top 10.7%831 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed16.2618.70
top 10.8%1,431 / 15,683
Megaminx1:19.161:24.40
top 21.2%1,463 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 3 solves969 / 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

CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 10.74Sharon Forks Showdown 2022: 9.57GA Cubers Turkey Gobblers 2022: 9.07CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023: 9.55Fountain City 2023: 8.70CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 8.76Music City Speedsolving Fall 2023: 9.85T-Town Showdown 2023: 8.86Fountain City Holiday Special 2023: 8.89Choo Choo Cubing A 2024: 8.54Fountain City Spring Fling 2024: 8.99CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 8.10T-Town Showdown AL 2024: 9.67CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 8.51Clemson Cube Catastrophe 2025: 8.66Georgia Championship 2026: 9.07Cube Against Cancer Roswell 2026: 8.14CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 9.01Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026: 9.79GA Cuber Jackets Spring 2026: 9.05The Loveliest Solves on the Plains Auburn 2026: 8.87GA Cubers Pride 2026: 8.48Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 10.398.1010.7429 Jul 20222 Jul 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 3.42 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.