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Bradley Sampson

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 4.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since May 2008 · 2008SAMP01

Bradley Sampson has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 24 moves, set at CubingUSA Rocky Mountain FMC Championship 2024, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 103rd in the United States. Across 77 competitions since May 2008, he has put 2,264 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.30 in May 2008 to 9.17, a 52% improvement. Bradley has entered 77 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 4.0% of 12,294 all-time
24 moves
signature single · CubingUSA Rocky Mountain FMC Championship 2024
2,264
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves24 moves27.33
top 4.0%103 / 2,040
Skewb3.045.74
top 5.2%795 / 18,907
3×39.1711.75
top 5.3%2,948 / 59,724
2×22.394.42
top 7.9%3,103 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed16.0420.85
top 10.3%1,370 / 15,683
Pyraminx4.777.53
top 11.8%3,059 / 28,708
4×441.6447.46
top 14.1%2,093 / 19,072
3×3 blindfolded1:12.361:29.76
top 16.9%326 / 2,092
Clock8.5410.61
top 17.7%1,352 / 8,927
3×3 Multi-Blind9 of 9 cubes · 53:07—
top 20.1%140 / 731
5×51:27.421:38.88
top 25.2%1,971 / 9,401
Square-119.5329.30
top 26.9%1,766 / 6,743
Megaminx1:43.741:49.98
top 36.9%2,654 / 7,841
6×62:56.833:15.44
top 39.5%1,442 / 4,196
7×74:42.114:47.31
top 45.1%1,309 / 3,184
4×4 blindfolded8:42.7515:16.00
top 49.4%201 / 440
5×5 blindfolded18:52.00—
top 55.8%125 / 218

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 Open 2008: 19.30Utah Cubing for Charity 2017: 19.75Utah Megacomp II 2017: 18.21Utah Winter Open 2018: 17.48Reno Winter 2018: 15.31CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2018: 18.39Utah Spring Open 2018: 15.94Yakima Valley Cubing 2018: 15.26CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 16.28Southern Utah Fall Open 2018: 11.94Idaho Spudcubing 2018: 12.64Utah Snowball Bash 2018: 11.95Skillcon 2018: 11.37Utah Valley Open 2019: 11.80North Star Cubing Challenge 2019: 12.78Reno Winter 2019: 12.03Utah Spring Open 2019: 12.78Utah's April Surprise 2019: 10.57Idaho Megacomp 2019: 9.95Wyoming Summer 2019: 13.80Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2019: 11.91CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 11.60Warm Up Sydney 2019: 14.04WCA World Championship 2019: 13.00CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 13.15Back to School Idaho 2019: 10.83Resticker Utah 2019: 12.40Big and Skewb Utah 2019: 11.38Perfect Vision Provo 2020: 9.75Washington Championship 2020: 12.74Olde Town Parker 2020: 11.06Idaho Summer B 2021: 9.69CubingUSA Western Championship 2021: 10.32Idaho Spudcubing II 2021: 9.51Scramble in the Springs 2022: 10.05Utah Ice Cubing 2022: 11.02Going Fast in Idaho 2022: 11.88Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022: 10.63Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 10.92Southern Utah Summer 2022: 10.62Back to School Utah 2022: 11.33Posthaste Potato Solving 2022: 11.19Utah Snowball Bash 2022: 10.25Idaho Freeze Dried 2023: 11.42Utah Ice Cubing 2023: 11.10Utah Megacomp 2023: 9.25Utah Puzzling For Awareness XL 2023: 12.13Southern Utah Summer 2023: 11.16Utah Summer Side Events A 2023: 10.08Back to School Utah 2023: 9.98Utah Championship 2023: 10.02Utah Snowball Bash 2023: 11.49Utah Ice Cubing 2024: 9.17Utah Newcomers 2024: 10.65CubingUSA Rocky Mountain Championship 2024: 10.71Utah Ice Cubing 2025: 11.07Utah Newcomers 2025: 10.99Utah Ice Cubing 2026: 11.86Cubing with Dinosaurs Lehi 2026: 10.989.1719.7517 May 200821 Feb 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-3 Skewb single — 3,646 people have one; it is 0.04 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.17 away.

Targets move as he improves.