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Graydon Cahill Clariond

2×2 · top 6.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023CLAR01

Graydon Cahill Clariond has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.21, set at Connecticut Spring 2023, puts him in the top 6.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,504th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since January 2023, he has put 147 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.48 in January 2023 to 10.26, a 44% improvement. Graydon has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 6.3% of 186,767 all-time
2.21
signature single · Connecticut Spring 2023
147
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.214.19
top 6.3%2,504 / 40,951
3×310.2612.27
top 8.2%4,532 / 59,724
Pyraminx5.9714.00
top 19.8%5,284 / 28,708
Skewb10.1313.25
top 55.7%10,128 / 18,907
Square-145.53
early days — 2 solves4,711 / 6,743

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

Mum's the Word 2023: 18.48Pioneer Valley Cubing B 2023: 14.16Fall River Cubikon 2023: 13.37Saint John's Scramble 2023: 12.24PBs in Palisades 2023: 11.46Connecticut Spring 2023: 12.49Westport Warmup 2023: 11.80CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.85Mystic Cubikon 2023: 11.16Hudson Valley 2023: 10.2610.2618.488 Jan 202319 Nov 2023

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.21 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.