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Dominic Cater

Square-1 · top 0.34% of 25,272 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019CATE01

Dominic Cater has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 5.23, set at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023, puts him in the top 0.34% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 40th in the United States. Until October 2018, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 45 competitions since January 2019, he has put 1,958 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.07 in January 2019 to 7.50, a 77% improvement. Dominic has entered 45 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.34% of 25,272 all-time
5.23
signature single · CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023
1,958
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Square-15.236.44
top 0.34%40 / 6,743
2×21.172.74
top 0.95%402 / 40,951
3×37.509.22
top 2.0%1,178 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.945.85
top 3.4%909 / 28,708
Skewb2.915.05
top 4.6%708 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed14.5216.68
top 7.1%957 / 15,683
4×439.8645.77
top 12.0%1,769 / 19,072
Megaminx1:04.721:16.54
top 12.5%854 / 7,841
5×51:15.961:33.74
top 16.1%1,244 / 9,401
Clock8.4710.06
top 17.4%1,327 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves37 moves47.00
early days — 3 solves810 / 2,040
6×63:09.623:29.17
top 45.5%1,682 / 4,196
3×3 blindfolded3:14.263:50.18
top 56.4%1,200 / 2,092
7×75:24.255:49.80
top 58.1%1,722 / 3,184

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

Garrettsville G-Men Classic 2019: 33.07Pittsburgh Spring 2019: 18.37Flag City Spring 2019: 17.20Bulldog Qualifier 2019: 14.02Cuyahoga Cubing 2019: 14.40Flag City Fall 2019: 12.88Kent Fall 2019: 11.20Garrettsville G-Men Classic 2020: 10.11Bulldog Winter 2.0 2022: 10.81Bulldog Spring 2022: 10.31Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 8.64Howland Returns 2022: 9.98Pittsburgh Summer A 2022: 8.86CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 9.72Ohio Valley Open 2022: 8.69Lake Erie Cubing Clash 2022: 9.80Pittsburgh Fall 2022: 8.05Bulldog Winter 2023: 9.58Washtenaw Spring A 2023: 8.32NA Stadium Series - Cleveland 2023: 9.89Bulldog Spring 2023: 8.78CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 11.34Washtenaw Fast 'n Late Fall 2023: 8.70Ohio State Fall 2023: 9.69CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 9.89ALL1- Pittsburgh 2023: 11.46Washtenaw Winter 2024: 8.49Eastwood Cubing 2024: 8.81Ohio State Summer 2024: 9.36Eastwood Mall Summer 2024: 8.80Dublin Ohio Summer PM 2024: 9.38CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 9.04Green Fall 2024: 8.26Ohio State Fall 2024: 7.50Ohio State Winter 2025: 8.16Many Cubes in Mansfield 2025: 8.69Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.80Locked in Clocked in Coshocton 2025: 9.04Ohio Championship 2025: 8.477.5033.0726 Jan 201920 Dec 2025

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-5 Square-1 single — 68 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.17 away.

Targets move as he improves.