People · United States
Kellan Colby
3×3 · top 6.8% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2025 · 2025COLB03
Kellan Colby has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.73, set at Penn Cube Day Fall 2026, puts him in the top 6.8% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,749th in the United States. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since October 2025, he has put 271 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.20 in October 2025 to 9.73, a 54% improvement. Kellan has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.73 | 12.57 | top 6.8% | 3,749 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 2.65 | 4.14 | top 10.5% | 4,172 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.06 | 10.55 | top 28.4% | 7,942 / 29,168 | |
| Skewb | 6.41 | 11.45 | top 29.1% | 4,830 / 19,164 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.97 | 35.43 | top 42.0% | 5,704 / 15,900 | |
| 4×4 | 1:29.29 | — | top 63.2% | 11,218 / 19,354 | |
| Clock | 25.32 | — | early days — 2 solves | 6,964 / 9,172 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 17 Oct 2026Four personal bests in one day at Virginia Championship 2026.
- 10 Oct 2026First sub-10 3×3: 9.73 at Penn Cube Day Fall 2026.
- 14 Feb 2026First sub-15 3×3: 11.49 at UMBC Winter 2026.
- 6 Dec 2025First sub-20 3×3: 16.50 at River Hill Fall 2025.
- 18 Oct 2025First competition: UMBC Fall 2025. A 21.20 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Virginia Championship 2026 · 17 Oct 2026 — 4 personal bests set
- Hazlet Fall 2026 · 11 Oct 2026
- Penn Cube Day Fall 2026 · 10 Oct 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Christmas City Cubing PA 2026 · 4 Oct 2026
- Putnam Lake 2026 · 20 Sep 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Catskills Summer 2026 · 29 Aug 2026
- LCCC Cubing Summer 2026 · 6 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Ephrata Spring 2026 · 11 Apr 2026 — 1 personal best set
- Penn Cube Day Spring 2026 · 22 Mar 2026
- King of Prussia Spring 2026 · 15 Mar 2026 — 1 personal best set
- UMBC Winter 2026 · 14 Feb 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- River Hill Fall 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- UMBC Fall 2025 · 18 Oct 2025
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.
- Leland Pak — met in 38 rounds, never finished ahead
- Satvik Vallabhaneni — met in 32 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
- Milan Vincent Andric — met in 30 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 1.73 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.65 away.
Targets move as he improves.