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Knut Peterson

3×3 one-handed · top 1.6% of 73,695 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016PETE11

Knut Peterson has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 10.78, set at Pretzel Mania Summer 2024, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 266th in the United States. Until July 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 29 competitions since June 2016, he has put 729 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.08 in June 2016 to 7.96, a 39% improvement. Knut has entered 29 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 1.6% of 73,695 all-time
10.78
signature single · Pretzel Mania Summer 2024
729
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed10.7813.03
top 1.6%266 / 15,683
3×37.969.15
top 2.7%1,557 / 59,724
2×22.134.08
top 5.7%2,260 / 40,951
4×438.3247.34
top 10.1%1,508 / 19,072
5×51:22.111:30.29
top 20.8%1,620 / 9,401
7×75:25.026:15.50
top 58.3%1,729 / 3,184
6×63:44.364:33.86
top 60.3%2,310 / 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

Indiana 2016: 13.08Dixon Fall 2016: 13.54SCC Summer 2017: 11.20ChicaGhosts 2017: 10.05Coach Pigeon 2018: 9.64Indianapolis Fall 2018: 10.64Indianapolis Cubes Winter 2019: 10.30Cubing in the Ville 2022: 8.84Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023: 9.18Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 10.51Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 9.41Princeton Fall 2023: 8.84Cubes on the Bayside Winter 2024: 8.28Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 9.08South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 8.80New Jersey Championship 2024: 7.96Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 8.86High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 8.03PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 8.64Penn Cube Day Spring 2025: 8.09Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.48Cubing in the Ocean County 2025: 8.01CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.48Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2025: 8.74Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 9.12RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026: 8.62Cherry Hill Mini May 2026: 8.18Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.99King of Prussia Summer 2026: 9.007.9613.5425 Jun 201625 Jul 2026

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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.