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Pilan Scruggs

3×3 · top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014SCRU01

Pilan Scruggs has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.92, set at Nisei Week 2017, puts him in the top 4.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,611th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since July 2014, he has put 619 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.31 in July 2014 to 8.92, a 62% improvement. Pilan has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.7% of 284,439 all-time
8.92
signature single · Nisei Week 2017
619
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.9211.61
top 4.7%2,611 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed14.9620.94
top 8.0%1,079 / 15,683
2×22.644.76
top 10.3%4,057 / 40,951
4×442.7247.95
top 15.4%2,320 / 19,072
Clock8.5010.50
top 17.5%1,335 / 8,927
Square-115.7520.35
top 18.1%1,228 / 6,743
Megaminx1:14.251:24.64
top 18.2%1,230 / 7,841
Skewb5.037.65
top 18.4%2,924 / 18,907
3×3 blindfolded1:19.041:40.06
top 19.2%379 / 2,092
Pyraminx6.098.43
top 20.7%5,566 / 28,708
3×3 Multi-Blind8 of 8 cubes · 53:39—
top 24.2%177 / 731
5×51:30.441:35.08
top 27.7%2,172 / 9,401
6×62:34.882:47.42
top 28.2%998 / 4,196
7×74:06.594:23.40
top 33.2%928 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves46.00
top 55.5%1,178 / 2,040

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

Newport Cube Day 2014: 23.31Newport Winter Open 2014: 18.77Nub Open 2015: 17.20Orange Coast Puzzle Meet 2015: 13.66SoCal Supercomp 2015: 13.20Nisei Week 2015: 15.64Irvine Fall 2015: 13.74Nub Open 2016: 12.62Caltech Winter 2016: 11.54St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 10.26TFTI San Diego 2016: 11.32SoCal Supercomp 2016: 11.45Newport Fall 2016: 11.362FTI San Diego 2016: 11.17Nisei Week 2017: 8.92TF3I San Diego 2017: 10.49Thanks for the InFive 2018: 11.81UCSD Winter 2019: 11.85UCSD Winter 2020: 13.378.9223.315 Jul 201418 Jan 2020

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.92 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.