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Erika Walker

2×2 · top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019WALK02

Erika Walker has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.27, set at Michigan 2023, puts her in the top 1.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 84th in Canada. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since January 2019, she has put 544 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 26.71 in January 2019 to 9.47, a 65% improvement. Erika has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time
1.27
signature single · Michigan 2023
544
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
2×21.272.31
top 1.3%84 / 7,173
Pyraminx2.433.40
top 2.0%80 / 4,858
Skewb2.754.30
top 3.8%66 / 2,907
3×39.4711.51
top 6.0%576 / 10,392
Square-111.8716.82
top 9.6%79 / 952
Clock6.938.14
top 10.7%74 / 1,029
Megaminx1:06.181:15.44
top 13.4%116 / 1,375
3×3 one-handed18.0223.92
top 15.1%319 / 2,620
4×448.9354.50
top 23.4%598 / 3,118
5×51:59.062:10.35
top 48.7%629 / 1,499

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

Ajax Winter 2019: 26.71Upstate Cubing 2019: 22.52Battle of Waterloo 2019: 16.48CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 12.83Richmond Hill 2022: 11.68Ajax First-Timers 2022: 9.66Oakville Fall B 2022: 11.10Appleby Winter A 2023: 11.77Pickering C 2023: 10.66Markham 3x3x3 Morning 2023: 9.47Southern Ontario Summer - Waterloo 2023: 11.72Michigan 2023: 10.25Appleby Summer A 2023: 11.30Appleby Fall B 2023: 11.06Waterloo Favourites Fall 2023: 11.459.4726.7112 Jan 20191 Oct 2023

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 her.

  • Roan Paone — met in 74 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
  • Ryan Wu — met in 73 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
  • Lucas Nieuwland — met in 66 rounds, finished ahead 16 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.27 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as she improves.