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Sam Buzzard
3×3 · top 7.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2025 · 2025BUZZ01
Sam Buzzard has been competing for a year. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.89, set at SacCubing XIX 2025, puts him in the top 7.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,934th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since January 2025, he has put 67 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Sam has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.89 | 12.14 | top 7.1% | 3,934 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 2.62 | 3.72 | top 10.1% | 3,980 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 6.08 | 11.91 | top 20.6% | 5,534 / 28,708 | |
| 4×4 | 48.21 | 55.20 | top 22.4% | 3,392 / 19,072 | |
| 5×5 | 1:51.98 | 2:02.35 | top 44.0% | 3,609 / 9,401 | |
| Megaminx | 3:18.58 | — | early days — 2 solves | 6,361 / 7,841 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 19 Jan 2025First competition: SacCubing XIX 2025. A 13.38 3×3 single to start from.
- 19 Jan 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.89 at SacCubing XIX 2025.
Competitions
- Santa Rosa Spring 2025 · 23 Mar 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Berkeley Spring 2025 · 2 Mar 2025
- SacCubing XIX 2025 · 19 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
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.
- Elvis Clark — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Bowen Deng (邓博文) — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Rahul Bollini — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.89 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
Targets move as he improves.