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Eli Plawner

3×3 · top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022PLAW01

Eli Plawner has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.41, set at Parsippany Mini PM 2024, puts him in the top 3.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,014th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since December 2022, he has put 388 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.12 in December 2022 to 8.41, a 51% improvement. Eli has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.41
signature single · Parsippany Mini PM 2024
388
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.4110.79
top 3.6%2,014 / 59,724
Pyraminx3.0810.11
top 3.9%1,043 / 28,708
Skewb3.5011.26
top 7.8%1,206 / 18,907
2×23.094.18
top 15.3%5,988 / 40,951
4×447.7051.64
top 21.7%3,296 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed20.8625.11
top 22.9%2,933 / 15,683
5×51:54.272:25.82
top 45.5%3,757 / 9,401
Square-128.1640.13
top 46.0%2,993 / 6,743
6×65:06.73
early days — 1 solve3,339 / 4,196
Clock32.97
early days — 1 solve7,819 / 8,927

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

West Chester Fall 2022: 17.12Pretzel Mania 2023: 11.33Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 12.46NJIT Spring 2023: 12.34PBs in Palisades 2023: 11.82South Jersey Speedsolving 2023: 12.17GCU Spring 2023: 12.04North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023: 11.22CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 12.28Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 10.35Princeton Fall 2023: 9.12Manhattan Mini D 2023: 8.87GCU Winter 2024: 10.53Parsippany Mini PM 2024: 8.41Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 9.51Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024: 11.868.4117.1210 Dec 202217 Nov 2024

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.