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Rue Clippinger

Pyraminx · top 1.6% of 129,321 all-time · competing since June 2016 · 2016CLIP01

Rue Clippinger has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.23, set at Fredericksburg Summer PM 2025, puts her in the top 1.6% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 413th in the United States. Until July 2011, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 101 competitions since June 2016, she has put 3,071 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 48.97 in June 2016 to 9.18, an 81% improvement. Rue has entered 101 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 1.6% of 129,321 all-time
2.23
signature single · Fredericksburg Summer PM 2025
3,071
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx2.234.16
top 1.6%413 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed11.9415.43
top 2.9%458 / 15,683
2×21.723.92
top 3.2%1,236 / 40,951
Clock5.086.68
top 4.6%372 / 8,927
3×39.1810.75
top 5.3%2,964 / 59,724
Skewb3.606.21
top 8.3%1,288 / 18,907
4×437.5345.00
top 9.3%1,385 / 19,072
5×51:10.081:23.74
top 11.6%903 / 9,401
3×3 blindfolded58.99—
top 12.7%245 / 2,092
Square-116.9224.12
top 20.8%1,395 / 6,743
6×62:21.012:29.10
top 21.0%743 / 4,196
7×73:35.693:44.68
top 21.8%620 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves45.00
top 23.4%507 / 2,040
Megaminx1:26.831:38.24
top 26.1%1,804 / 7,841
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 5 cubes · 31:33—
top 57.6%443 / 731

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

Duke Summer 2016: 48.97Charleston Spring 2018: 26.48Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2018: 18.55CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2019: 19.32Cape Fear Cubing 2019: 16.18Greensboro Summer 2019: 12.82Rocky The Ram Cubes 2019: 13.58Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2019: 13.75Berkeley Winter B 2023: 12.25Virginia Beach Spring 2023: 12.02Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 13.12Richmond Spring 2023: 13.58ODU Big Blue Spring 2023: 12.28Concord Summer 2023: 23.37Canadian Championship 2023: 13.04CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 12.53Virginia Beach Fall 2023: 12.41CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 10.18North Carolina Championship 2023: 10.83Virginia Championship 2023: 21.98Rocky Top 2023: 17.88Take Your Time Ermelo 2023: 11.93Virginia Still-Open Winter 2024: 9.75Eastwood Cubing 2024: 11.83Upstate Palmetto Puzzles 2024: 10.60Cincinnati Speed Solving 2024: 12.07Cubicle Day Oxford 2024: 10.86Cubing at Carson 2024: 10.65Country Roads Huntington 2024: 11.29Concord Summer 2024: 12.30CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2024: 9.88Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 11.93Bull City Summer NC 2024: 10.23CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 11.15CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 10.75Appalachian Highlands TN 2024: 11.79NCSU Wolfpack 2024: 12.98Charlotte Winter 2025: 11.19Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 11.12See Georgia: Cloudland Canyon A 2025: 10.36Queen City NC 2025: 9.41Cubes in the Mountains WV 2025: 12.01Virginia Always Open Spring 2025: 9.86Cubing in School Westminster 2025: 12.25North Carolina Championship 2025: 10.66TJHSST Spring 2025: 12.88CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2025: 11.61Colonial Cube Clash VA Summer 2025: 11.37Warm Up Seattle 2025: 11.02Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.65Championnat Canadien 2025: 11.08More Cubing with the Cougars WV 2025: 9.87Clemson Cube Catastrophe 2025: 11.35Virginia Championship 2025: 10.63CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 11.54Fredericksburg Summer PM 2025: 10.15Concord Summer 2025: 10.86ODU Big Blue Open 2025: 9.51NCSU Wolfpack 2025: 10.50Coosa Cubing Clash 2025: 9.18Wrightsville Beach Bash 2026: 10.75Georgia Championship 2026: 11.14Vanderbilt Winter 2026: 9.51Gobbler Cube Day Winter at VT 2026: 9.54NxN Nonsense NC 2026: 11.43NCSU Wolfpack Spring 2026: 10.19Williamsburg Open Spring 2026: 12.52CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2026: 11.64Bull City Big Cubes NC 2026: 11.08Apex Algs Again 2026: 9.72GA Cubers Pride 2026: 10.31Warm Up Carolina Pride 2026: 11.25Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 9.77Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 9.899.1848.9711 Jun 201614 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.23 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.94 away.

Targets move as she improves.