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Corey Sakowski

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2011 · 2011SAKO01

Corey Sakowski has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.13, set at Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 895th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 206 competitions since February 2011, he has put 8,324 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.52 in February 2011 to 7.13, a 67% improvement. Corey has entered 206 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.13
signature single · Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019
8,324
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.1310.10
top 1.5%895 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.434.29
top 2.0%536 / 28,708
Skewb2.284.74
top 2.2%319 / 18,907
2×21.573.09
top 2.5%970 / 40,951
3×3 blindfolded26.4333.25
top 3.3%65 / 2,092
Square-18.7914.72
top 4.2%311 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed13.4718.74
top 5.2%737 / 15,683
4×435.2841.31
top 6.9%1,076 / 19,072
3×3 Multi-Blind16 of 16 cubes · 53:19—
top 7.2%56 / 731
Clock6.097.79
top 7.5%590 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves31.67
top 9.9%229 / 2,040
5×51:09.801:15.33
top 11.5%887 / 9,401
Megaminx1:06.971:13.55
top 13.9%946 / 7,841
4×4 blindfolded4:34.846:38.57
top 18.4%71 / 440
7×73:29.933:44.81
top 19.7%559 / 3,184
6×62:20.232:25.44
top 20.6%727 / 4,196
5×5 blindfolded12:46.00—
top 31.8%62 / 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

Washington DC Winter 2011: 21.52Newark Head to Head 2011: 19.34United States National Championships 2011: 20.38Appalachia 2011: 15.40Princeton Fall 2011: 16.66Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 16.40Bridgewater Open 2011: 13.80River Hill Winter 2012: 13.18Newark Head to Head 2012: 14.08Carnegie Mellon Spring 2012: 11.38Cornell Open Spring 2012: 12.36Captain's Cove competition 2012: 11.31Raleigh Open 2012: 12.13Jersey Shore Open 2012: 11.58United States National Championships 2012: 14.30St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 10.56Yale Fall 2012: 13.30Battle of Appalachia 2012: 12.47Princeton Fall 2012: 12.63Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2012: 11.84Levittown Open 2012: 11.34Carnegie Mellon Fall 2012: 10.91Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 10.93Monmouth County Open 2013: 12.63River Hill Winter 2013: 12.31Princeton Spring 2013: 12.00Cornell Open Spring 2013: 11.46Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2013: 10.27Yale Spring 2013: 11.18Carnegie Mellon Spring 2013: 10.42Newark Head to Head 2013: 14.40Raleigh Open 2013: 11.80World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 13.03Indiana 2013: 9.75CCFC Fall 2013: 11.95Chesapeake Science Point Fall 2013: 12.33Yale Fall 2013: 10.53Slow 'n Steady Fall 2013: 11.25Starlight Open 2013: 11.73Carnegie Mellon Fall 2013: 10.31Liberty Science Center Open 2013: 13.43CCFC Winter 2014: 11.94River Hill Winter 2014: 10.97Princeton Winter 2014: 11.10Virginia Open Spring 2014: 10.70Yale Spring 2014: 9.34Cornell Open Spring 2014: 11.61CCFC BLD Day 2014: 10.38Michigan 2014: 12.48US Nationals 2014: 13.08Starlight Open 2014: 11.66River Hill Summer 2014: 10.70Carnegie Mellon Fall 2014: 11.32Virginia Open Fall 2014: 10.64Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 11.78Carnegie Mellon Winter 2014: 10.76River Hill Winter 2015: 11.16Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 12.78Yale Spring 2015: 11.71Virginia Open Spring 2015: 8.68Doylestown Spring 2015: 9.04Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2015: 10.65Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 11.22Indiana 2015: 11.51US Nationals 2015: 9.42Norwich Summer 2015: 10.30Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 11.41ODU Big Blue Open 2015: 11.06Virginia Open Fall 2015: 11.90River Hill Fall 2015: 9.96Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 9.93Princeton Winter 2016: 9.31Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 11.98Virginia Open Spring 2016: 10.38Manhasset Spring 2016: 10.93ODU Big Blue Spring 2016: 9.70Severna Park Spring 2016: 8.89Cube For A Cure Spring 2016: 9.51Cube4Cam 2016: 12.16Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 10.49Indiana 2016: 9.25US Nationals 2016: 9.70Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 11.00Princeton Fall 2016: 13.40Severna Park Fall 2016: 10.75TJHSST Fall 2016: 9.39Rockville Winter 2017: 12.19Ledgewood Winter Open 2017: 9.43Virginia Open Winter 2017: 11.03ODU Big Blue Spring 2017: 11.18Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 9.94Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 10.68NovaCube 2017: 10.90EZ Cubes Spring 2017: 12.79Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 10.19CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.59Severna Park Summer 2017: 10.54Rally In The Valley 2017: 9.88Gobbler Cube Day 2017: 10.52Princeton Fall 2017: 9.27Maryland 2017: 9.92UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 11.97TJHSST Fall 2017: 11.03Severna Park Showdown 2017: 11.07Northern Neck Winter 2018: 10.96Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 12.22Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 10.33Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 10.31Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 10.34NovaCube 2018: 9.86Rutgers Spring 2018: 10.80River Hill Spring 2018: 11.51WFS Cubing Spring 2018: 10.30RVA Spring 2018: 9.90Tea Time Spring 2018: 10.11CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 10.19Rally In The Valley 2018: 10.10Maryland 2018: 10.00First State 2018: 11.08Fredericksburg Summer Open 2018: 10.87CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 11.04Pennsylvania 2018: 10.28Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 10.81Princeton Fall 2018: 8.93RVAutumn 2018: 10.87ODU Big Blue Fall 2018: 9.63TJHSST Fall 2018: 10.81CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 10.81Pittsburgh Open 2018: 9.94Northern Neck Winter 2019: 10.53Gobbler Cube Day Winter 2019: 9.68Battle of Virginia Beach Winter 2019: 10.02CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 9.31VES Spring 2019: 9.92Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 9.90ODU Big Blue Spring 2019: 9.67Woodberry Forest School Cubing 2019: 10.13MLWGS Spring 2019: 9.15Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 9.96George School Open 2019: 11.23River Hill Spring 2019: 9.40Richmond Spring 2019: 9.98Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 10.15Greensboro Summer 2019: 8.68Rally in the Valley 2019: 10.99CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.80Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 10.44Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019: 9.12Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 9.83Gobbler Cube Day Fall 2019: 7.13TJHSST Fall 2019: 9.04ODU Big Blue Fall 2019: 8.73Pittsburgh Fall 2019: 8.06Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 9.29Northern Neck Winter 2020: 9.91Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 10.25MLWGS Winter 2020: 9.78Princeton Winter 2020: 9.70Country Roads Martinsburg 2020: 8.29Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 10.58Skewbadelphia Winter 2020: 9.72Empire State Summer A 2021: 10.58Slow N Steady Fall 2021: 9.95Happy Valley Spring 2022: 9.99Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 10.30River Hill Spring 2022: 10.85Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 10.87Owings Mills Summer 2022: 11.00CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 10.98Pretzel Mania 2022: 11.42Think In Fink Fall 2022: 10.31River Hill Fall 2022: 10.47West Chester Fall 2022: 12.23Dunkirk Winter 2023: 10.80Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 10.48Cougar Qualifier 2023: 9.85Cubing in the Lion's Den 2023: 10.56Warwick Cube Day 2023: 9.41CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 9.15CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.04Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 9.44Slow N Steady Fall 2023: 9.68MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 10.48Cubing in the Lion's Den 2024: 10.52UMBC Winter 2024: 9.94Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 9.40Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 10.07Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 9.37River Hill Spring 2025: 9.62UMBC Fall 2025: 8.54River Hill Fall 2025: 9.43TJHSST Winter 2026: 10.977.1321.5219 Feb 201115 Mar 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.13 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.