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Justin Strumpf

3×3 · top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014STRU02

Justin Strumpf has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.04, set at Amherst Open 2022, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,771st in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since August 2014, he has put 713 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.79 in August 2014 to 9.04, a 46% improvement. Justin has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.04
signature single · Amherst Open 2022
713
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.0410.00
top 4.9%2,771 / 59,724
2×22.734.28
top 11.3%4,435 / 40,951
4×442.0950.29
top 14.6%2,188 / 19,072
Pyraminx5.598.65
top 17.0%4,520 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed20.2524.95
top 21.2%2,707 / 15,683
Skewb6.377.92
top 28.7%4,708 / 18,907
5×51:44.851:58.45
top 39.0%3,135 / 9,401
Clock21.57—
top 69.0%5,948 / 8,927
Megaminx2:58.40—
top 73.7%5,753 / 7,841
6×64:43.99—
top 78.2%3,111 / 4,196

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

US Nationals 2014: 16.79Lexington Fall 2014: 15.83Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 13.74River Hill Winter 2015: 13.39Toronto Open Spring 2015: 11.38Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 12.07US Nationals 2015: 11.63Norwich Summer 2015: 13.11Liberty Science 2015: 11.81Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 11.23Princeton Winter 2016: 12.37Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 11.32Manhasset Spring 2016: 11.43Big Apple Spring 2016: 12.39New York City Summer 2016: 9.97Princeton Fall 2016: 11.77Ledgewood Winter Open 2017: 11.07New York City Winter 2017: 11.89Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 10.48Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 11.31Rutgers Spring 2018: 10.27CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 11.29Upstate Cubing 2019: 9.10Colonie Spring 2019: 11.00Arcadia Summer 2019: 10.65New York Championship 2022: 9.14Granite State 2022: 11.05Amherst Open 2022: 9.04Cubers Flood Watertown 2022: 9.42Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 10.63North Jersey Speedsolving B 2023: 11.099.0416.791 Aug 201421 May 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.04 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.