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Catherine Connolly

3×3 one-handed · top 0.41% of 73,695 all-time · competing since November 2017 · 2017CONN04

Catherine Connolly has been competing for 9 years. Her best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.74, set at 3x3x3 Cube Frisco 2019, puts her in the top 0.41% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10th in Canada. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 68 competitions since November 2017, she has put 3,272 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.75 in November 2017 to 5.97, a 57% improvement. Catherine has entered 68 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.41% of 73,695 all-time
8.74
signature single · 3x3x3 Cube Frisco 2019
3,272
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 standingCanada
3×3 one-handed8.7416.04
top 0.41%10 / 2,620
3×35.978.04
top 0.47%37 / 10,392
2×21.072.31
top 0.7%43 / 7,173
Square-18.1010.88
top 3.2%24 / 952
Skewb2.804.78
top 4.0%71 / 2,907
Pyraminx3.555.23
top 5.7%200 / 4,858
4×433.9143.50
top 5.8%135 / 3,118
Megaminx55.221:00.56
top 7.6%64 / 1,375
5×51:10.221:19.84
top 11.7%140 / 1,499
Clock7.429.60
top 12.6%95 / 1,029
3×3 blindfolded1:21.692:52.19
top 20.2%61 / 351
6×62:23.052:24.63
top 22.0%113 / 665
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves39.33
top 26.7%80 / 283
7×73:59.884:16.93
top 30.6%125 / 503
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 22:28—
top 53.6%61 / 112
4×4 blindfolded13:43.00—
early days — 2 solves43 / 60

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

Longhorn Cube Day 2017: 13.75South East Texas Open 2018: 14.18Howdy Partner 2018: 11.53Longhorn Spring 2018: 14.94CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 10.81Dallas Fort Worth 2018: 11.44Turning in Texas 2018: 12.06DFW Cubing Fiesta August 2018: 10.32DFW Cubing Fiesta September 2018: 11.30Longhorn Fall 2018: 11.51Dallas Winter 2018: 9.76Southeast Texas Winter 2019: 10.303x3x3 Cube Frisco 2019: 7.28Katy Cubing 2019: 9.57Trinity Valley Open Spring 2019: 9.69DFW With A Twist 2019: 10.69Acadiana Classic 2019: 10.93CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 10.50Texas Out of School 2019: 9.49Cajun Cube Clash 2019: 9.16Dallas Warm Up 2019: 5.97CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.46345 Cube Day Allen 2019: 8.60Austin Fall 2019: 9.60DFW NxN Winter 2020: 8.58Houston Winter 2020: 7.71Frisco Liberty Cubing 2020: 7.74Welcome Back Texas 2021: 7.79Baton Rouge Winter 2022: 7.70DFW Cubing Spring 2022: 8.40Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 8.75CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 8.35DFW Cubing Summer 2022: 8.00CubingUSA Texas Championship 2022: 6.94Cube With Intention in Denton 2022: 8.21Cubing For Water Winter 2023: 8.97DFW Cubing Summer 2023: 8.48CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.84Brazos Cubing Fall 2023: 6.93Texas Championship 2023: 7.39Keep Austin Weird 2023: 8.58DFW Cubing Fall 2023: 6.83Space City Winter 2024: 6.14DFW Winter Variation 2024: 7.31DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 6.86Cube Against Cancer Texas 2024: 7.23DFW Megacomp 2024: 7.07Texas Championship 2024: 6.05Space City Winter TX 2025: 8.62Cube Against Cancer Houston 2025: 6.82Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.36Richmond Fall 2025: 7.27Victoria Winter 2026: 8.25Burnaby Winter 2026: 8.28Vancouver Mini Morning 2026: 7.19Richmond Spring 2026: 7.86Spring Breeze in Burnaby 2026: 6.32Burnaby Cubes Big & Small 2026: 7.47Chill Cubing in Chilliwack 2026: 6.99BC Championship 2026: 7.195.9714.9418 Nov 20177 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.74 away.
  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.97 away.

Targets move as she improves.