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Sam Collard

2×2 · top 25.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018COLL09

Sam Collard has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.91, set at Dutch Spring 2022, puts him in the top 25.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 585th in the Netherlands. Across 10 competitions since November 2018, he has put 188 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.40 in November 2018 to 15.52, a 39% improvement. Sam has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 25.3% of 186,767 all-time
3.91
signature single · Dutch Spring 2022
188
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
2×23.916.49
top 25.3%585 / 1,665
3×315.5218.71
top 26.2%744 / 2,294
4×41:15.161:30.27
top 51.8%510 / 1,000
Pyraminx12.3021.40
top 69.1%973 / 1,283
3×3 one-handed43.9554.44
top 70.5%493 / 726
Skewb18.3724.39
top 86.9%855 / 957

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

Meppel Open 2018: 25.40Happy New Year Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 29.48Star Cubing Nijmegen 2019: 19.41Hoogland Open 2019: 20.26Dutch Nationals 2019: 20.10Happy New Year Cubing Hoorn 2020: 17.79Star Cubing Nijmegen 2020: 15.52Dutch Spring 2022: 17.32Dutch Masters 2022: 16.48Dutch Nationals 2022: 15.6415.5229.4810 Nov 201826 Nov 2022

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.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.