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Ty Baird

5×5 · top 0.4% of 40,792 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023BAIR02

Ty Baird has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 5×5: a personal-best single of 42.76, set at Rocky Mountain Championship 2026, puts him in the top 0.4% of the 40,792 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in the United States. Until November 2016, no official 5×5 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since January 2023, he has put 1,315 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.92 in January 2023 to 6.70, a 39% improvement. Ty has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

5×5
best event — top 0.4% of 40,792 all-time
42.76
signature single · Rocky Mountain Championship 2026
1,315
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
5×542.7650.51
top 0.4%29 / 9,401
6×61:20.411:24.28
top 0.62%28 / 4,196
7×72:04.112:07.99
top 0.84%27 / 3,184
3×36.708.72
top 1.0%647 / 59,724
4×426.2429.66
top 1.1%180 / 19,072
2×21.432.48
top 1.9%734 / 40,951
Skewb2.345.27
top 2.3%348 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed12.1515.78
top 3.2%492 / 15,683
Clock4.936.66
top 4.2%345 / 8,927
Pyraminx3.405.51
top 5.1%1,324 / 28,708
Megaminx51.7958.92
top 5.9%422 / 7,841
Square-111.0913.77
top 8.2%590 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves33.00
top 9.9%229 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded51.071:22.29
top 10.2%200 / 2,092
4×4 blindfolded5:30.916:55.97
early days — 3 solves104 / 440
3×3 Multi-Blind7 of 8 cubes · 57:41—
top 34.8%260 / 731

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

Utah Ice Cubing 2023: 10.92Utah Puzzling For Awareness XL 2023: 11.76Southern Utah Summer 2023: 9.98Burley Summer 2023: 8.30Back to School Utah 2023: 8.39Utah Championship 2023: 9.84Utah Snowball Bash 2023: 8.59Utah Ice Cubing 2024: 9.66Utah Newcomers 2024: 8.12CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024: 9.13Utah Cubing with Culture 2024: 7.39Spanish Fork AM 2024: 9.09Utah Ice Cubing 2025: 8.64Utah Puzzling for Awareness IV 2025: 9.13Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.76Tooele Open A 2025: 8.41Back to School Utah 2025: 7.11Davis County Showdown 2025: 8.49Utah State University Fall 2025: 6.70Utah Championship 2025: 8.29Utah Snowball Bash 2025: 7.46Utah Ice Cubing 2026: 7.02Cubing with Dinosaurs Lehi 2026: 8.23Wild West Wyoming 2026: 8.81Rocky Mountain Championship 2026: 8.506.7011.7628 Jan 202321 Aug 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-40 5×5 single — 68 people have one; it is 2.76 away.
  • A sub-1:00 6×6 single — 2 people have one; it is 20.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.