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Evan Smith

2×2 · top 0.35% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2019 · 2019SMIT28

Evan Smith has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 0.88, set at NOLA Cube Fest 2026, puts him in the top 0.35% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 148th in the United States. Until November 2011, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 49 competitions since June 2019, he has put 1,559 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.32 in November 2019 to 6.90, a 66% improvement. Evan has entered 49 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 0.35% of 186,767 all-time
0.88
signature single · NOLA Cube Fest 2026
1,559
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×20.882.54
top 0.35%148 / 40,951
3×36.909.68
top 1.2%748 / 59,724
Skewb2.556.25
top 3.1%471 / 18,907
Pyraminx4.837.62
top 12.1%3,157 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed17.1621.07
top 13.0%1,675 / 15,683
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves47.00
top 30.0%652 / 2,040
Megaminx1:42.511:57.94
top 36.1%2,581 / 7,841
Clock12.4414.70
top 37.1%2,947 / 8,927
4×41:21.151:26.00
top 56.9%9,792 / 19,072

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

Lafayette Fall 2019: 20.32Houston Winter 2020: 20.06Houston Fall 2022: 12.30Baton Rouge Winter 2023: 12.57Solving in Shreveport 2023: 13.70Bayou Big Cubes 2023: 10.96CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023: 10.16Cajun Cube Clash 2023: 10.76Louisiana Mega Two Day 2023: 10.76CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 9.63CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.45T-Town Showdown 2023: 10.09Get Ahead in Andalusia 2023: 9.94Fleur-de-Lis Fall LA 2023: 10.61Baton Rouge Winter 2024: 9.15Cube Against Cancer Texas 2024: 8.97Bayou Big Cubes 2024: 9.98Red Stick Spring 2024: 9.34Turning at Tompkins Spring 2024: 10.94Alabama Championship 2024: 9.75Louisiana Championship 2024: 9.72Cajun Cube Clash 2024: 8.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 9.63T-Town Showdown AL 2024: 11.45Mississippi Cubing Dawgs 2024: 7.25New Orleans 2024: 9.37Baton Rouge Winter A 2025: 10.73Mississippi Championship 2025: 8.81Cube Against Cancer New Orleans 2025: 9.12South East Louisiana Open 2025: 8.89Assumption Mustang Cubing 2025: 8.12CubingUSA Southern Championship 2025: 9.38Louisiana Mega Two Day 2025: 8.95Cajun Cube Clash 2025: 8.42LA Twist or Treat 2025: 9.45LA Unorthodox Twistgiving 2025: 9.12Baton Rouge Winter 2026: 9.22Cube Against Cancer LA 2026: 6.90NOLA Cube Fest 2026: 9.31Magnolia State Cubing 2026: 9.01GAN Southern Championship 2026: 9.34LA Summer Throwdown 2026: 8.61Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.67Cubalaya LA 2026: 10.04Cubing the Coast MS 2026: 8.75Cajun Cube Clash 2026: 9.066.9020.329 Nov 201929 Aug 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.

  • RJ Gohn — met in 274 rounds, finished ahead 47 times
  • Seth Talbot — met in 238 rounds, finished ahead 157 times
  • Dylan Miller — met in 228 rounds, finished ahead 32 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.90 away.
  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.