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Patrick A. Laine

3×3 · top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2024 · 2024LAIN02

Patrick A. Laine has been competing for 2 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.67, set at Olympia Classic 2024, puts him in the top 9.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,162nd in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since May 2024, he has put 102 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Patrick has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.67
signature single · Olympia Classic 2024
102
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.6712.38
top 9.5%5,162 / 59,724
4×447.3056.82
top 21.2%3,218 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed28.9835.74
top 44.3%5,996 / 15,683
5×52:03.59
early days — 3 solves4,322 / 9,401
6×63:49.573:54.20
top 62.1%2,400 / 4,196
7×76:28.23
early days — 3 solves2,297 / 3,184

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

Olympia Classic 2024: 10.67Kent Spring 2024: 11.61CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 11.17Tacoma Summer 2024: 10.88Bellingham Fall 2024: 11.64BC Championship 2026: 11.2310.6711.645 May 20247 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.67 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 7.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.