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Theodore Chen

Clock · top 12.2% of 32,048 all-time · competing since October 2023 · 2023CHET03

Theodore Chen has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 7.32, set at American Dream NJ 2025, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 935th in the United States. Across 26 competitions since October 2023, he has put 491 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.53 in October 2023 to 14.46, a 57% improvement. Theodore has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 12.2% of 32,048 all-time
7.32
signature single · American Dream NJ 2025
491
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock7.329.24
top 12.2%935 / 8,927
2×22.834.86
top 12.3%4,846 / 40,951
3×314.4615.71
top 22.6%12,215 / 59,724
Pyraminx6.447.81
top 23.3%6,317 / 28,708
Skewb5.739.91
top 23.7%3,822 / 18,907
Square-120.3526.09
top 28.7%1,876 / 6,743
Megaminx2:03.492:21.39
top 47.7%3,542 / 7,841
4×41:49.65—
top 76.5%14,029 / 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

Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 33.53Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 26.28GCU Winter 2024: 32.55Parsippany Mini AM 2024: 25.77Cardinal Cube Day 2024: 26.75Ridgefield Spring 2024: 26.36Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 23.61New York Championship 2024: 20.95ALL1- Empire State 2024: 24.05Flushing Open AM 2024: 21.09Flushing Glow AM 2024: 21.61Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 25.89Pop Off Princeton 2025: 25.02Flushing Glow Open PM 2025: 21.11PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 24.67Liberty Science Center Open B 2025: 16.90Great Peconic Bay 2025: 19.87PBs in Palisades Spring 2025: 14.81American Dream NJ 2025: 17.07Long Island Summer 2025: 19.78Flushing Glow Autumn PM 2025: 15.18Brooklyn Waldorf Winter 2025: 14.46Liberty Science Center Open A 2026: 15.37Edgemont Cubing 2026: 14.6314.4633.5314 Oct 202318 Apr 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-6 Clock single — 2,324 people have one; it is 1.32 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.