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Sam Connelly

3×3 · top 15.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022CONN08

Sam Connelly has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.41, set at Happy Valley Spring 2024, puts her in the top 15.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,200th in the United States. Across 22 competitions since July 2022, she has put 404 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 23.20 in July 2022 to 12.41, a 47% improvement. Sam has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.3% of 284,439 all-time
12.41
signature single · Happy Valley Spring 2024
404
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.4116.46
top 15.3%8,200 / 59,724
2×23.895.79
top 25.1%9,844 / 40,951
Clock11.9212.83
top 34.5%2,730 / 8,927
Skewb8.8212.93
top 47.2%8,361 / 18,907
Pyraminx9.3313.21
top 47.6%13,746 / 28,708
4×41:20.431:32.59
top 56.2%9,661 / 19,072

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

East Brunswick Open 2022: 23.20Amherst Open 2022: 18.29River Hill Fall 2022: 18.93Cape Cod 2023: 20.05Cubing in the Lion's Den 2023: 16.43Square-Fun in Bloomsburg 2023: 18.28Cumberland County Cubing 2023: 16.87GCU Winter 2024: 16.02Parsippany Mini AM 2024: 16.32New-Cumberland County 2024: 15.45Happy Valley Spring 2024: 12.41It's About Time Bloomsburg 2024: 14.29Berwick Spring 2024: 13.17New Jersey Championship 2024: 15.44High Five Bloomsburg 2024: 15.90Happy Valley Spring PA 2025: 14.02Tipping Point Bloomsburg 2025: 13.48CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 16.85NxNything Goes Bloomsburg 2025: 16.13Axemann Fall 2025: 18.85Penn Cube Day Spring 2026: 16.57Happy Valley Spring PA 2026: 15.9112.4123.2030 Jul 202219 Apr 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.89 away.

Targets move as she improves.