We prove that k -th order derivatives of perturbative classical solutions to the hard and soft potential Boltzmann equation (without the angular cut-off assumption) in the whole space, with n≥3, converge in large time to the global Maxwellian with the optimal decay rate of in the -norm for any 2≤r≤∞. These results hold for any 媳∈(0,n/2] as long as initially . In the hard potential case, we prove faster decay results in the sense that if and for edaa127baddcf7d" title="Click to view the MathML source">媳∈(n/2,(n+2)/2] then the solution decays the global Maxwellian in with the optimal large time decay rate of .