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Sam Arndt-Ambrose

Clock · top 83.4% of 32,048 all-time · competing since October 2021 · 2021ARND01

Sam Arndt-Ambrose has been competing for 5 years. Her best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 29.25, set at Rocky Top 2022, puts her in the top 83.4% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,408th in the United States. Across 15 competitions since October 2021, she has put 185 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 21% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:29.35 in October 2021 to 58.55, a 34% improvement. Sam has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 83.4% of 32,048 all-time
29.25
signature single · Rocky Top 2022
185
official solves on the record
21%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Clock29.2535.10
top 83.4%7,408 / 8,927
2×213.7421.45
top 88.4%36,727 / 40,951
3×358.551:11.44
top 90.9%55,451 / 59,724
Pyraminx19.5227.37
top 92.3%27,038 / 28,708

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

Cobb Cubes Comeback 2A 2021: 1:29.35Rocky Top 2021: 1:19.83Cape Fear 2022: 1:15.35GA Cubers February C 2022: 1:22.08Jasper Highlands 2022: 1:06.58Starkvegas Spring 2022: 1:14.53Buccaneer Bonanza 2022: 1:11.72GA Cubers Pride 2022: 1:14.93CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 1:59.00GA Cubers Turkey Gobblers 2022: 1:20.19Rocky Top 2022: 58.55Music City Speedsolving 2023: 1:06.97CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2023: 1:02.4058.551:59.0030 Oct 202115 Apr 2023

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-25 Clock single — 24,572 people have one; it is 4.25 away.
  • A sub-12 2×2 single — 157,609 people have one; it is 1.74 away.

Targets move as she improves.