People · United States
Patrick Farrell
3×3 · top 5.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016FARR07
Patrick Farrell has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.05, set at Mystic Cubikon 2023, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,784th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since October 2016, he has put 332 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.68 in October 2016 to 9.05, a 49% improvement. Patrick has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.05 | 13.28 | top 5.0% | 2,784 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.33 | 3.16 | top 7.3% | 2,895 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 8.23 | 10.10 | top 38.2% | 10,893 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 27.58 | 31.95 | top 40.8% | 5,459 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 1:18.40 | — | top 54.6% | 9,317 / 19,072 | |
| Skewb | 31.69 | 46.91 | top 97.6% | 18,630 / 18,907 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 20 Aug 2023First sub-10 3×3: 9.05 at Mystic Cubikon 2023.
- 20 Aug 2023Three personal bests in one day at Mystic Cubikon 2023.
- 22 Sep 2018Three personal bests in one day at Kew Forest Open 2018.
- 8 Jul 2018First sub-15 3×3: 14.96 at Brooklyn 2018.
- 29 Oct 2016First competition: Severna Park Fall 2016. A 17.68 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Mystic Cubikon 2023 · 20 Aug 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Cubers Flood Watertown 2022 · 8 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Babylon Winter 2020 · 29 Feb 2020
- SBU Fall 2019 · 23 Nov 2019
- Ridge Cubing Fall 2019 · 14 Sep 2019
- Hudson Valley Summer 2019 · 13 Jul 2019
- Empire State Spring 2019 · 20 Apr 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Long Island Winter 2019 · 23 Feb 2019
- Liberty Science Center Open 2018 · 8 Dec 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Kew Forest Open 2018 · 22 Sep 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Brooklyn 2018 · 8 Jul 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- North Plainfield Open 2018 · 19 May 2018 — 1 personal best set
- New York City Winter 2018 · 13 Jan 2018
- Princeton Fall 2017 · 23 Sep 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Hudson Valley Spring 2017 · 10 Jun 2017
- New York City Winter 2017 · 11 Mar 2017
- Monument Mountain Winter 2017 · 28 Jan 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Severna Park Fall 2016 · 29 Oct 2016
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.
- Chris Chi — met in 61 rounds, never finished ahead
- Kymberlyn Calderon — met in 52 rounds, never finished ahead
- Krish Shah-Nathwani — met in 49 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.05 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.33 away.
Targets move as he improves.