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Everett Kelly

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2008 · 2008KELL02

Everett Kelly has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.17, set at Nisei Week 2018, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 930th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 43 competitions since November 2008, he has put 1,442 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.56 in November 2008 to 7.17, a 75% improvement. Everett has entered 43 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.17
signature single · Nisei Week 2018
1,442
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.178.58
top 1.5%930 / 59,724
2×21.752.49
top 3.3%1,289 / 40,951
Pyraminx3.035.03
top 3.7%993 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed14.3318.10
top 6.7%917 / 15,683
4×439.3445.22
top 11.3%1,668 / 19,072
Skewb5.026.93
top 18.3%2,905 / 18,907
Square-116.9119.35
top 20.8%1,393 / 6,743
5×51:25.391:33.88
top 23.6%1,830 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 1 solve969 / 2,040
6×63:37.244:18.65
top 57.6%2,197 / 4,196
Megaminx2:26.30—
early days — 2 solves4,469 / 7,841
Clock21.0825.58
top 67.7%5,840 / 8,927
7×76:15.686:20.28
top 71.2%2,194 / 3,184

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

Caltech Fall 2008: 28.56Discovery Science Center competition 2009: 22.18Nisei Week Open 2009: 18.09Bayview Hills Open 2010: 15.65Caltech Winter 2010: 16.84Moose Lodge 2010: 14.58Discovery Science Center competition 2010: 11.93San Diego Open 2010: 12.50Nisei Week Open 2010: 15.01Caltech Winter 2011: 11.61Caltech Winter 2012: 9.82Caltech Spring 2012: 10.58Nisei Week 2012: 9.81Caltech Fall Open 2012: 10.03Antelope Valley Winter 2013: 10.53Caltech Winter Open 2013: 10.05Diamond Bar Spring Open 2013: 10.03Caltech Spring Open 2013: 10.31World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 9.43Antelope Valley Fall 2013: 8.96Southwest Showdown 2013: 9.43Caltech Fall Open 2013: 8.21Caltech Winter Open 2014: 9.08Caltech Spring Open 2014: 8.13San Diego Summer Splash 2014: 8.28Nisei Week 2014: 8.60Antelope Valley Fall 2014: 8.88Caltech Fall Open 2014: 8.86Nub Open 2015: 8.99St. Francis Winter Open 2015: 8.61Caltech Winter Open 2015: 8.15SoCal Supercomp 2015: 8.02Nisei Week 2015: 8.05Caltech Fall 2015: 8.28Caltech Winter 2016: 8.37St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 8.34Nisei Week 2016: 7.86Caltech Winter 2017: 7.93A Bruin Cube Day 2018: 8.09Nisei Week 2018: 7.17Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025: 7.447.1728.5622 Nov 200818 Oct 2025

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.