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Thomas Schmidt

3×3 · top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017SCHM04

Thomas Schmidt has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.59, set at CubingUSA Western Championship 2019, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,224th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since March 2017, he has put 717 official solves on the record across 13 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 17.22 in March 2017 to 8.59, a 50% improvement. Thomas has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.59
signature single · CubingUSA Western Championship 2019
717
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
3×38.5910.63
top 3.9%2,224 / 59,724
4×435.1642.08
top 6.9%1,063 / 19,072
Megaminx1:05.111:25.04
top 12.8%870 / 7,841
2×22.944.00
top 13.6%5,331 / 40,951
Skewb4.537.42
top 14.7%2,294 / 18,907
Pyraminx5.326.67
top 15.2%3,984 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed18.3921.81
top 16.1%2,078 / 15,683
5×51:16.041:24.19
top 16.1%1,252 / 9,401
Clock9.9411.10
top 24.8%1,907 / 8,927
6×62:34.872:52.72
top 28.2%996 / 4,196
7×74:14.094:28.20
top 35.7%1,002 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded2:33.28—
top 44.3%948 / 2,092
Square-130.7337.41
top 50.7%3,321 / 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

Qualifornia 2017: 17.22UCSD Summer 2017: 14.47Newport Fall 2017: 13.44Thanks Four The Invite 2018: 12.63Cerritos Open 2018: 11.42West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 11.79Poly Cubed 2018: 13.54CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 8.59Santa Barbara Fall 2019: 9.54Marshall Cubing September 2022: 10.03WCC Western Championship 2022: 10.81UCSB Cubing 2024: 11.57Nub Open Lake Forest 2024: 10.37Santa Barbara Winter 2025: 9.99Cube Against Cancer - Orange County 2025: 9.41Agoura Side Events Day 2025: 10.59UCLA Spring 2025: 10.47West Coast Cubing Tour: Los Angeles 2025: 9.05UCLA Summer 2025: 10.81UCLA Westerns Warmup 2025: 9.60Nub Open Trabuco Hills Fall 2025: 9.63Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025: 10.12UCSB Favorites 2025: 11.36Huntington Park Winter 2025: 8.91Agoura Winter 2026: 9.18West Coast Cubing Western Championship 2026: 9.268.5917.2225 Mar 201723 May 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 5.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.