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Gavin Gruppuso
Pyraminx · top 1.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017GRUP01
Gavin Gruppuso has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.29, set at Don't Pop Princeton 2024, puts him in the top 1.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 442nd in the United States. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 51 competitions since December 2017, he has put 1,173 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.96 in December 2017 to 7.69, a 67% improvement. Gavin has entered 51 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 2.29 | 5.14 | top 1.7% | 442 / 28,708 | |
| 2×2 | 1.41 | 3.47 | top 1.8% | 705 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 7.69 | 10.27 | top 2.3% | 1,332 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 3.03 | 5.61 | top 5.1% | 789 / 18,907 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 16.14 | 20.04 | top 10.5% | 1,394 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 41.55 | 55.82 | top 14.0% | 2,078 / 19,072 | |
| Square-1 | 14.20 | 21.84 | top 14.5% | 985 / 6,743 | |
| 5×5 | 1:24.37 | 1:49.71 | top 22.7% | 1,759 / 9,401 | |
| Clock | 13.67 | 19.48 | top 42.5% | 3,407 / 8,927 | |
| Megaminx | 2:00.10 | 2:06.55 | top 45.7% | 3,358 / 7,841 | |
| 6×6 | 3:55.60 | 4:59.31 | early days — 3 solves | 2,476 / 4,196 | |
| 7×7 | 5:59.71 | 6:12.87 | early days — 3 solves | 2,049 / 3,184 |
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
- 2 Mar 2024First sub-10 3×3: 9.86 at Penn Cube Day Spring 2024.
- 2 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at Penn Cube Day Spring 2024.
- 2 Jul 2022Five personal bests in one day at New York Championship 2022.
- 9 Nov 2019First sub-15 3×3: 13.43 at No Place For DNF Fall 2019.
- 9 Nov 2019Three personal bests in one day at No Place For DNF Fall 2019.
- 12 May 2018First sub-20 3×3: 18.15 at Lower Moreland Spring 2018.
Competitions
- King of Prussia Summer 2026 · 25 Jul 2026
- Cape May Summer A 2026 · 20 Jun 2026
- LCCC Cubing Summer 2026 · 6 Jun 2026 — 1 personal best set
- RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026 · 16 May 2026
- Lodi Solves Spring 2026 · 7 Mar 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Open A 2026 · 28 Feb 2026
- Christmas City Cubing PA 2025 · 4 Oct 2025
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025 · 3 Jul 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Penn Cube Day Spring 2025 · 23 Mar 2025
- Liberty Science Center Open A 2025 · 15 Mar 2025
- PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025 · 22 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Rutgers Winter 2025 · 25 Jan 2025
- Cubing in the Ocean County 2024 · 29 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Newark Academy Spring 2024 · 2 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Spring into Summit 2024 · 4 May 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Happy Valley Spring 2024 · 30 Mar 2024
- Don't Pop Princeton 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Penn Cube Day Spring 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- GCU Winter 2024 · 13 Jan 2024
- CubingUSA Nationals 2023 · 27 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- GCU Spring 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- South Jersey Speedsolving 2023 · 22 Apr 2023
- Penn Cube Day Spring 2023 · 4 Mar 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- West Chester Fall 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- East Brunswick Open 2022 · 30 Jul 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- New York Championship 2022 · 2 Jul 2022 — 5 personal bests set
- Princeton Spring 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Skewbadelphia Winter 2020 · 7 Mar 2020
- Babylon Winter 2020 · 29 Feb 2020 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2019 · 14 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- No Place For DNF Fall 2019 · 9 Nov 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Branchburg Open 2019 · 2 Nov 2019
- Brooklyn Fall 2019 · 12 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Ridge Cubing Fall 2019 · 14 Sep 2019
- CubingUSA Nationals 2019 · 1 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Brooklyn 2019 · 25 May 2019
- Meadowlands 2019 · 4 May 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Ridge Cubing 2019 · 6 Apr 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Lower Moreland Winter 2019 · 16 Mar 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Princeton Winter 2019 · 9 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- New Hope Open Winter 2019 · 20 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2018 · 8 Dec 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018 · 17 Nov 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Princeton Fall 2018 · 29 Sep 2018
- Kew Forest Open 2018 · 22 Sep 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Brooklyn 2018 · 8 Jul 2018 — 1 personal best set
- New Hope Open Spring 2018 · 16 Jun 2018
- Lower Moreland Spring 2018 · 12 May 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- New York City Spring 2018 · 21 Apr 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Incredible Pencil Mania 2018 · 10 Feb 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2017 · 16 Dec 2017
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.
- Livia Kleiner — met in 146 rounds, finished ahead once
- Brandon Ervin — met in 130 rounds, finished ahead 58 times
- Tyler Kochy — met in 124 rounds, finished ahead 9 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
Targets move as he improves.