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Sage Thompson

3×3 · top 3.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019THOM09

Sage Thompson has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.40, set at Oberlin Big Cubes 2025, puts her in the top 3.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,039th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since March 2019, she has put 1,104 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 50% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 29.61 in March 2019 to 8.40, a 72% improvement. Sage has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.6% of 288,433 all-time
8.40
signature single · Oberlin Big Cubes 2025
1,104
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 50% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.4011.33
top 3.6%2,039 / 60,666
5×51:04.501:14.26
top 8.2%646 / 9,537
2×22.424.92
top 8.2%3,271 / 41,674
Pyraminx4.457.23
top 10.0%2,637 / 29,168
Megaminx1:00.991:10.45
top 10.6%742 / 8,026
4×438.7643.31
top 10.7%1,606 / 19,354
7×73:15.463:29.77
top 14.9%425 / 3,236
6×62:10.442:18.08
top 15.7%565 / 4,262
Skewb4.837.18
top 16.9%2,713 / 19,164
3×3 one-handed20.3027.19
top 21.4%2,763 / 15,900
Clock17.1720.04
top 56.1%4,790 / 9,172

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

Blue Water Winter 2019: 29.61Flag City Spring 2019: 19.54Kent State Taco Bash 2019: 19.88Battle for Toledo 2019: 18.51Mishawaka Summer 2019: 15.16Cuyahoga Cubing 2019: 15.59Michigan Cubing Club Gamma 2019: 16.72Kent Fall 2019: 12.41Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2020: 17.20Washtenaw Qualifiers 2024: 12.40Get Ready Grove City 2024: 10.88Eastwood Mall Summer 2024: 10.33CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 12.23Ohio State Fall 2024: 10.80Ohio State Nearly New Years 2024: 10.44Ohio State Winter 2025: 10.93Green Winter 2025: 10.23Put-in-Bay 2025: 11.35Minxville Indiana 2025: 11.23Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 11.53Locked in Clocked in Coshocton 2025: 10.17Washtenaw Slow Fall 2025: 10.54Oberlin Big Cubes 2025: 8.40New Martinsville Newcomers 2026: 9.50OberliNxN 2026: 10.21CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2026: 10.67Ohio Championship 2026: 11.968.4029.619 Mar 201911 Sep 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-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-1:00 5×5 single — 2,328 people have one; it is 4.50 away.

Targets move as she improves.