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Elijah Sippel

3×3 · top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015SIPP01

Elijah Sippel has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.80, set at The Battle of Lexington 2019, puts him in the top 4.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,455th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since November 2015, he has put 568 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 48.00 in November 2015 to 8.80, an 82% improvement. Elijah has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.80
signature single · The Battle of Lexington 2019
568
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.8010.31
top 4.4%2,455 / 59,724
2×22.004.03
top 4.7%1,891 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed16.6020.18
top 11.6%1,516 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.228.34
top 14.6%3,820 / 28,708
4×442.1450.50
top 14.7%2,200 / 19,072
Skewb5.078.03
top 18.7%2,975 / 18,907
5×51:30.051:42.14
top 27.4%2,142 / 9,401
Square-127.3832.79
top 44.3%2,883 / 6,743
Megaminx2:27.06—
early days — 1 solve4,505 / 7,841

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

Caltech Fall 2015: 48.00Caltech Winter 2016: 18.51St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 21.69Petoskey Cubing 2016: 17.96Cerritos Open 2017: 11.67CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 13.54Sharon Summer 2017: 10.73Weston Fall 2017: 9.75Cubing with the Viking 2017: 10.98Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 9.43BU Spring 2018: 11.94Quizzical Quabbin Qualifier 2018: 9.66Connect Community 2018: 9.36MIT Fall 2018: 10.59The Battle of Lexington 2018: 8.88Boston University Winter 2019: 9.04Salem Cube Trials 2019: 9.75The Battle of Lexington 2019: 8.80Cubing in Cambridge 2019: 9.55Massachusetts Championship 2019: 9.62CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.848.8048.0021 Nov 20151 Aug 2019

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.

  • Derek White — met in 88 rounds, finished ahead 28 times
  • James Quinn — met in 85 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Alex Cohen — met in 79 rounds, finished ahead 34 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 1.00 away.

Targets move as he improves.