People · United States
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.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 8.41 | 10.79 | top 3.6% | 2,014 / 59,724 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.08 | 10.11 | top 3.9% | 1,043 / 28,708 | |
| Skewb | 3.50 | 11.26 | top 7.8% | 1,206 / 18,907 | |
| 2×2 | 3.09 | 4.18 | top 15.3% | 5,988 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 47.70 | 51.64 | top 21.7% | 3,296 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.86 | 25.11 | top 22.9% | 2,933 / 15,683 | |
| 5×5 | 1:54.27 | 2:25.82 | top 45.5% | 3,757 / 9,401 | |
| Square-1 | 28.16 | 40.13 | top 46.0% | 2,993 / 6,743 | |
| 6×6 | 5:06.73 | — | early days — 1 solve | 3,339 / 4,196 | |
| Clock | 32.97 | — | early days — 1 solve | 7,819 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 18 Nov 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.12 at Princeton Fall 2023.
- 2 Sep 2023Nine personal bests in one day at Pretzel Mania Summer 2023.
- 20 May 2023Three personal bests in one day at North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023.
- 15 Apr 2023Three personal bests in one day at PBs in Palisades 2023.
- 25 Feb 2023First sub-15 3×3: 13.77 at Pretzel Mania 2023.
- 25 Feb 2023Three personal bests in one day at Pretzel Mania 2023.
Competitions
- Cubing-on-Hudson PM 2024 · 17 Nov 2024
- Pretzel Mania Summer 2024 · 31 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Don't Pop Princeton 2024 · 23 Mar 2024
- Parsippany Mini PM 2024 · 27 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- GCU Winter 2024 · 13 Jan 2024
- Manhattan Mini D 2023 · 10 Dec 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Princeton Fall 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Pretzel Mania Summer 2023 · 2 Sep 2023 — 9 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- GCU Spring 2023 · 6 May 2023
- South Jersey Speedsolving 2023 · 22 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- PBs in Palisades 2023 · 15 Apr 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- NJIT Spring 2023 · 18 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Penn Cube Day Spring 2023 · 4 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Pretzel Mania 2023 · 25 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- West Chester Fall 2022 · 10 Dec 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.
- Zach Ridall — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Ayden Dincher — met in 72 rounds, never finished ahead
- Nico Ozsvath — met in 71 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
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.