People · United States
Eli Krongold
3×3 · top 0.85% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022KRON01
Eli Krongold has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.50, set at Super Duper San Diego 2024, puts him in the top 0.85% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 543rd in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since April 2022, he has put 543 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.00 in April 2022 to 6.50, a 54% improvement. Eli has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 6.50 | 8.52 | top 0.85% | 543 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 1.49 | 2.12 | top 2.1% | 841 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.30 | 8.63 | top 4.7% | 1,221 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 13.84 | 16.98 | top 5.8% | 812 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 39.93 | 47.88 | top 12.1% | 1,784 / 19,072 | |
| Skewb | 4.28 | 8.75 | top 12.9% | 1,996 / 18,907 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 11 Feb 2024Three personal bests in one day at Triton Tricubealon 2024.
- 7 Jan 2024Four personal bests in one day at UCSD Winter 2024.
- 29 Jan 2023First sub-10 3×3: 8.90 at Cozy Cubing Poway 2023.
- 29 Jan 2023Three personal bests in one day at Cozy Cubing Poway 2023.
- 7 Oct 2022Five personal bests in one day at WCC Western Championship 2022.
- 16 Apr 2022First competition: San Diego Spring 2022. A 14.00 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- UCSD Maybe 2025 · 11 May 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Super Duper San Diego 2024 · 28 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Westview Cubing Favorites 2024 · 25 May 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- San Diego Newcomers 2024 · 16 Mar 2024
- Triton Tricubealon 2024 · 11 Feb 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- UCSD Winter 2024 · 7 Jan 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- UCSD Extravaganza 2023 · 7 Oct 2023 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD Unofficial Events 2023 · 30 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Corona Summer 2023 · 2 Sep 2023
- UCSD For Hemophilia 2023 · 3 Jun 2023
- Westview Cubing Favorites 2023 · 27 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- UCSD Spring 2023 · 2 Apr 2023
- Circle City Turbocharged 2023 · 11 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Oak Valley Winter A 2023 · 25 Feb 2023
- Cozy Cubing Poway 2023 · 29 Jan 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- WCC Western Championship 2022 · 7 Oct 2022 — 5 personal bests set
- Marshall Cubing September 2022 · 24 Sep 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Marshall Middle Slice 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Geffen Spring 2022 · 21 May 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- San Diego Spring 2022 · 16 Apr 2022
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.
- Elijah Franklin — met in 94 rounds, finished ahead 60 times
- Kyeongmin Choi (최경민) — met in 86 rounds, finished ahead once
- Alexander Watson — met in 65 rounds, finished ahead 47 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
Targets move as he improves.