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Noa Arthurs

3×3 blindfolded · top 3.3% of 12,178 all-time · competing since April 2012 · 2012ARTH01

Noa Arthurs has been competing for 14 years. Her best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 26.27, set at Please Be Quiet 2015, puts her in the top 3.3% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 64th in the United States. Until June 2013, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since April 2012, she has put 1,346 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside her 38 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 24.40 in April 2012 to 9.48, a 61% improvement. Noa has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 3.3% of 12,178 all-time
26.27
signature single · Please Be Quiet 2015
1,346
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 blindfolded26.2727.49
top 3.3%64 / 2,092
3×3 one-handed12.8816.90
top 4.2%617 / 15,683
2×21.944.75
top 4.4%1,731 / 40,951
3×39.4812.82
top 6.1%3,354 / 59,724
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves30.33
top 6.2%149 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind18 of 19 cubes · 59:47—
top 7.0%54 / 731
4×4 blindfolded3:31.224:51.31
top 11.0%46 / 440
4×444.5549.87
top 17.7%2,689 / 19,072
5×51:24.581:30.71
top 22.9%1,777 / 9,401
5×5 blindfolded11:37.00—
top 27.1%52 / 218
Pyraminx7.4114.63
top 31.2%8,709 / 28,708
Megaminx2:28.362:41.24
top 60.4%4,554 / 7,841
6×63:47.724:11.09
top 61.5%2,371 / 4,196
7×75:48.656:21.58
top 64.8%1,955 / 3,184
Skewb12.6019.35
top 69.0%12,961 / 18,907
Clock48.551:09.09
top 96.6%8,677 / 8,927

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

Harvard Spring 2012: 24.40Yale Spring 2012: 21.91Captain's Cove competition 2012: 20.77Dixon Open 2012: 20.08St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 20.27Princeton Fall 2012: 17.91Harvard Fall 2012: 18.09MIT Fall 2012: 18.00Levittown Open 2012: 17.71Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 19.30Monmouth County Open 2013: 19.09Harvard Spring 2013: 17.65MIT Spring 2013: 16.34Cornell Open Spring 2013: 16.33Yale Spring 2013: 14.46Newark Head to Head 2013: 16.28Cambridge Open 2013: 13.66World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 13.47CCFC Fall 2013: 14.50Harvard Fall 2013: 11.36Yale Fall 2013: 13.16Starlight Open 2013: 11.20Lexington Fall 2013: 12.61Liberty Science Center Open 2013: 14.19CCFC Winter 2014: 12.53Princeton Winter 2014: 12.97Williams Winter 2014: 11.53Montréal Open 2014: 12.39Yale Spring 2014: 16.71CCFC BLD Day 2014: 14.48US Nationals 2014: 13.54Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 13.35Indiana 2014: 13.08BASC 4: Día de los Cubos 2014: 12.60BASC 5: Everything But 2x2 2015: 12.46SPCS Stanford Spring 2015: 13.24World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 13.29US Nationals 2015: 12.28Italian Championship 2015: 9.88Norwich Summer 2015: 11.05Liberty Science 2015: 12.21US Nationals 2016: 12.20Berkeley Summer 2016: 9.48Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016: 12.74West Coast Cubing Tour - Fresno 2018: 11.30West Coast Cubing Tour - Cupertino 2018: 13.56SacCubing V 2018: 11.60Berkeley Summer 2018: 13.60Cubing in the Redwoods 2018: 12.04Bay Area Speedcubin' 12 2018: 12.799.4824.407 Apr 201221 Oct 2018

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.

Next targets

  • A sub-25 3×3 blindfolded single — 355 people have one; it is 1.27 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as she improves.