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Sam Leonard

3×3 · top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024LEON09

Sam Leonard has been competing for 2 years. Their best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.99, set at Manchester January 2025, puts them in the top 7.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 544th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since March 2024, they have put 575 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Their 3×3 best has come down from 11.91 in March 2024 to 9.99, a 16% improvement. Sam has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.99
signature single · Manchester January 2025
575
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×39.9912.35
top 7.4%544 / 6,689
2×22.593.60
top 9.8%642 / 4,895
4×442.4545.91
top 15.0%350 / 2,071
5×51:17.171:27.97
top 17.0%225 / 1,151
6×62:29.202:53.75
top 25.2%149 / 548
Square-118.9224.98
top 25.5%245 / 778
Pyraminx6.789.15
top 26.1%1,030 / 3,656
3×3 one-handed22.0126.26
top 26.1%476 / 1,851
7×74:08.834:20.12
top 34.0%159 / 459
Megaminx1:52.452:11.57
top 41.8%471 / 966
Skewb8.3910.43
top 44.2%1,040 / 2,421
Clock16.9419.10
top 55.3%718 / 1,232
3×3 Fewest Moves54 moves—
early days — 1 solve337 / 372

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

Manchester Spring 2024: 11.91Manchester June 2024: 13.03Manchester August 2024: 12.62Weston-super-Mare Autumn 2024: 13.10Manchester January 2025: 9.99Leeds Spring 2025: 12.13Bolton Spring 2025: 10.79Manchester Spring 2025: 13.20Crewe Spring 2025: 11.82Manchester June 2025: 11.96Rubik's UK Championship 2025: 11.20Manchester Favourites II 2026: 11.77Liverpool Spring 2026: 10.47Crewe May 2026: 10.13Manchester Cubing League - Third 2026: 11.149.9913.2029 Mar 202413 Jun 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.99 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as they improves.