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Holden Schwartz

2×2 · top 26.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023SCHW07

Holden Schwartz has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.98, set at Naticube 2024, puts him in the top 26.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,343rd in the United States. Across 8 competitions since May 2023, he has put 99 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 43.00 in May 2023 to 22.36, a 48% improvement. Holden has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 26.2% of 186,767 all-time
3.98
signature single · Naticube 2024
99
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.989.13
top 26.2%10,343 / 40,951
3×322.3629.77
top 46.4%26,805 / 59,724
Pyraminx10.1515.03
top 54.2%15,806 / 28,708
Skewb12.4719.58
top 68.3%12,827 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed2:19.613:25.84
top 98.9%15,522 / 15,683

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

Connecticut Spring 2023: 43.00Mystic Cubikon 2023: 36.27CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 32.23Northampton Fall B 2023: 28.11Hudson Valley 2023: 28.16GCU Winter 2024: 26.26Fall River Cubikon 2024: 24.65Naticube 2024: 22.3622.3643.0013 May 202317 Feb 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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 2.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.