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Laura Plourde

Skewb · top 3.4% of 73,281 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014PLOU01

Laura Plourde has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.64, set at Ottawa Summer 2024, puts her in the top 3.4% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 57th in Canada. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 94 competitions since May 2014, she has put 3,035 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 27.96 in May 2014 to 8.98, a 68% improvement. Laura has entered 94 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 3.4% of 73,281 all-time
2.64
signature single · Ottawa Summer 2024
3,035
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
Skewb2.645.00
top 3.4%57 / 2,907
3×38.9811.26
top 4.8%460 / 10,392
2×22.103.66
top 5.4%344 / 7,173
Megaminx55.531:07.32
top 7.7%66 / 1,375
Pyraminx4.285.24
top 9.1%327 / 4,858
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves36.00
top 12.2%40 / 283
4×440.3446.73
top 12.5%311 / 3,118
Clock8.079.52
top 15.5%123 / 1,029
5×51:19.281:30.72
top 18.5%221 / 1,499
Square-118.9824.74
top 25.6%217 / 952
6×62:35.852:50.39
top 28.6%145 / 665
3×3 one-handed23.2427.76
top 29.4%653 / 2,620
7×74:03.754:15.43
top 32.2%133 / 503

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

National Capital Region 2014: 27.96National Capital Region 2015: 14.57Toronto Open Fall 2015: 13.24National Capital Region 2016: 12.77National Capital Region 2017: 16.62Oakville Limited Fall 2017: 14.19Oakville Limited Winter 2018: 18.32National Capital Region 2018: 15.83Battle of Waterloo 2018: 16.89National Capital Region 2019: 13.76Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 14.29Spruce Grove Summer 2022: 14.19Rockies Rager Fall 2022: 14.47Sylvan Solves 2022: 12.05Cubing Above the Dinosaurs 2023: 12.97Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2023: 11.53Cubing on Par B 2023: 11.99National Capital Region A 2023: 10.53Winnipeg Open 2023: 11.43Canadian Championship 2023: 11.11Sherwood Park Summer 2023: 12.41CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 12.72Odd Day in Sylvan 2023: 11.66Saskatchewan Open 2023: 12.49Foothills NxNs 2023: 11.78North Star Cubing Challenge 2024: 11.53Battle of Alberta 2024: 12.71Winterpeg 2024: 11.74Queen City Cubing Regina 2024: 12.17New to Sherwood Park 2024: 11.15Helena 2024: 12.21Mother Earth's Charter Spring 2024: 11.49The Battlefords: Cubers Strike Back 2024: 12.08Edmonton River Valley Rumble 2024: 12.87NA Stadium Series - Edmonton 2024: 11.98Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 13.62Ottawa Summer 2024: 11.31Saskatchewan Big Cubes 2024: 11.25Ontario Championship 2024: 9.86Winnipeg Open 2024: 12.47Cubing Among the Drumheller Dinosaurs 2024: 10.67La La Land 2024: 11.56Solved Central Alberta 2024: 11.84Lloydminster Border Battle 2024: 11.32Alberta 10th Anniversary 2025: 10.57Honolulu Hoʻoilo 2025: 11.59Vegas Cubing Cup Winter 2025: 10.22Battle of Alberta 2025: 11.04Saskatchewan Newcomers 2025: 11.11New to Edmonton A 2025: 11.37Out in the Country Crossfield 2025: 9.61Spring Bozeman 2025: 11.02North Battleford Cube Day 2025: 11.11Southern Alberta Cubing 2025: 10.46Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.13Hawaiian Island Tour - Kona 2025: 10.53Hawaiian Island Tour - Waimea 2025: 10.00Hawaiian Island Tour - Hilo 2025: 10.95Hawaiian Island Tour - Kāhala Open 2025: 12.40Hawaiian Island Tour - Honolulu 2025: 10.89SaskatooNxN 2025: 10.17CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025: 10.15Winnipeg Fall Afternoon 2025: 10.27Don't Blow Away Casper 2025: 11.12Solved Central Alberta 2025: 10.38Grand Forks 2025: 11.13Richmond Fall 2025: 8.98Regina Twist 'N Treat 2025: 10.56Crossfield Fall 2025: 10.39Grand Slam of Cubing: Lloydminster 2025: 10.27Edmonton Winter 2026: 11.90Saskatoon Winter 2026: 10.47Regina Newcomers 2026: 11.44Battle of Alberta 2026: 10.96North Battleford Cube Day 2026: 11.52Burnaby Cubes Big & Small 2026: 11.13Yukon Solve It Whitehorse 2026: 10.05Canadian Prairie Championship 2026: 11.46Carberry Open 2026: 10.96BC Championship 2026: 10.96Calgary Fall 2026: 10.498.9827.9617 May 201429 Aug 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 her.

  • Alex Mutch — met in 228 rounds, finished ahead 71 times
  • Lucas Kuczaj — met in 216 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
  • Griffin Clem — met in 198 rounds, finished ahead 29 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.64 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as she improves.