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Sam Jacklin

3×3 · top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015JACK04

Sam Jacklin has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.51, set at Wakefield Spring 2022, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 160th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since November 2015, he has put 1,678 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 80% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.56 in November 2015 to 7.51, a 62% improvement. Sam has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.0% of 284,439 all-time
7.51
signature single · Wakefield Spring 2022
1,678
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 80% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×37.5110.78
top 2.0%160 / 6,689
4×428.7432.51
top 2.1%55 / 2,071
5×555.351:00.10
top 3.5%52 / 1,151
7×72:37.452:50.96
top 5.0%23 / 459
6×61:49.551:57.83
top 7.0%45 / 548
Pyraminx3.916.31
top 7.2%282 / 3,656
2×22.363.85
top 7.6%527 / 4,895
Skewb3.956.94
top 10.6%240 / 2,421
Megaminx1:09.101:15.79
top 15.1%187 / 966
3×3 one-handed19.2923.89
top 18.6%353 / 1,851
Square-118.4424.28
top 24.4%230 / 778
3×3 Fewest Moves34 moves39.67
top 26.7%118 / 372
Clock11.7215.48
top 33.6%452 / 1,232
3×3 blindfolded4:22.16—
early days — 2 solves260 / 311

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

UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 19.56Guildford Open 2016: 14.60UK Championship 2016: 13.77Peterborough Open 2017: 12.43London Open 2017: 8.81August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 11.51UK Championship 2017: 10.09High Wycombe Open 2018: 8.91Peterborough Open 2018: 10.39Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 9.65UK Championship 2018: 9.01Cambridge Open 2018: 9.58London Open 2019: 10.04British Summer Open 2019: 10.25August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 11.45UK Championship 2019: 10.41Weston-super-Mare Open 2019: 8.96Doncaster Open 2020: 10.70Wakefield Open 2022: 10.04Weston-super-Mare Open 2022: 10.50Wakefield Spring 2022: 7.51Norwich Summer 2022: 10.44Kewbz UK Championship 2022: 9.91Lincolnshire Winter 2023: 9.917.5119.567 Nov 201525 Feb 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 his.

  • Charlie Stark — met in 325 rounds, finished ahead 120 times
  • Fabio Schwandt — met in 306 rounds, finished ahead 52 times
  • Eli Jay — met in 304 rounds, finished ahead 17 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.51 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 3.74 away.

Targets move as he improves.