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Riley Norrid

Skewb · top 0.09% of 73,281 all-time · competing since February 2014 · 2014NORR01

Riley Norrid has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 1.11, set at Cubalaya 2019, puts him in the top 0.09% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15th in the United States. Until October 2015, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 64 competitions since February 2014, he has put 2,883 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 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. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.90 in May 2014 to 6.37, a 74% improvement. Riley has entered 64 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 0.09% of 73,281 all-time
1.11
signature single · Cubalaya 2019
2,883
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 standingUnited States
Skewb1.112.79
top 0.09%15 / 18,907
3×36.377.62
top 0.74%481 / 59,724
4×426.9332.04
top 1.3%231 / 19,072
Pyraminx2.714.93
top 2.7%726 / 28,708
5×555.711:02.79
top 3.6%300 / 9,401
2×22.103.44
top 5.4%2,170 / 40,951
Square-19.9412.34
top 5.9%435 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed14.5320.26
top 7.1%963 / 15,683
Megaminx1:36.671:54.28
top 32.5%2,296 / 7,841
6×62:47.662:58.64
top 35.0%1,256 / 4,196
7×74:27.044:36.18
top 40.2%1,140 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves40 moves—
early days — 2 solves1,031 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded3:34.56—
early days — 3 solves1,299 / 2,092

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

Remember The Alamo 2014: 24.90Keep Austin Weird 2014: 25.94San Antonio Open 2014: 16.33Rice University 2014: 17.55Austin Cubing Limits 2015: 14.21SMA Winter 2015: 12.94Texas Two-Day Showdown 2015: 13.99HOOAH SMA 2015: 15.99Dallas Winter 2015: 11.86South East Texas Open 2016: 11.46Dallas Spring 2016: 9.43Do the Cube at the DoSeum 2016: 11.69US Nationals 2016: 13.43Oklahoma Fall 2016: 10.34Dallas Fall 2016: 10.37South East Texas Open 2017: 8.94Don't Mess With Texas 2017: 9.08CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 9.17Southern Championships 2017: 9.57Cajun Cube Clash 2017: 8.90Wake Up Late 2017: 9.60Yeehaw 2017: 9.18Parity for Charity 2017: 8.07South East Texas Open 2018: 8.28Howdy Partner 2018: 7.44Spring Forward 2018: 7.75Cubalaya 2018: 7.94CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 8.95Bayou Bash 2018: 8.86Turning in Texas 2018: 9.15Cajun Cube Clash 2018: 6.85CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 8.54DFW Cubing Fiesta August 2018: 9.02Trinity Valley Open 2018: 8.16Southeast Texas Winter 2019: 8.68Frisco Liberty Cubing 2019: 7.70Katy Cubing 2019: 7.39Cubalaya 2019: 8.36Lone Star Cubing 2019: 9.33Acadiana Classic 2019: 8.32CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 7.62Texas Out of School 2019: 6.59Dallas Warm Up 2019: 6.63CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.11Fort Worth Fall Fiesta 2019: 8.22Houston Winter 2020: 6.68Welcome Back Texas 2021: 6.71Baton Rouge Winter 2022: 6.67DFW Cubing Spring 2022: 7.64CubingUSA Southern Championship 2022: 6.78DFW Cubing Fall 2022: 7.50Houston Fall 2022: 6.37Cube With Intention in Denton 2022: 7.24Cubing For Water Winter 2023: 7.39Cube Against Cancer Texas 2023: 6.95CubingUSA Southern Championship 2023: 6.49Space City Summer 2023: 6.58Texas Championship 2023: 6.72DFW Cubing Winter 2024: 7.57Turning at Tompkins Spring 2024: 7.176.3725.9417 May 201421 Apr 2024

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.

  • Dylan Miller — met in 338 rounds, finished ahead 68 times
  • Zachary White — met in 319 rounds, finished ahead 138 times
  • Jason Lee — met in 254 rounds, finished ahead 54 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 Skewb single — 35 people have one; it is 0.11 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.37 away.

Targets move as he improves.