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Sam Schultz

2×2 · top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2011 · 2011SCHU06

Sam Schultz has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.29, set at Babylon Summer 2022, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 553rd in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 97 competitions since December 2011, he has put 3,399 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.56 in December 2011 to 8.76, a 70% improvement. Sam has entered 97 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.3% of 186,767 all-time
1.29
signature single · Babylon Summer 2022
3,399
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.293.51
top 1.3%553 / 40,951
3×38.7610.70
top 4.3%2,403 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.067.30
top 8.0%2,038 / 28,708
7×72:52.353:00.35
top 8.6%234 / 3,184
Skewb3.877.95
top 10.0%1,533 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed16.3722.45
top 11.1%1,453 / 15,683
6×62:01.592:08.50
top 11.6%416 / 4,196
4×439.8344.76
top 11.9%1,761 / 19,072
5×51:11.031:15.60
top 12.3%950 / 9,401
Megaminx1:22.281:29.80
top 23.3%1,597 / 7,841
Clock20.3522.77
top 65.7%5,619 / 8,927

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

MIT Fall 2011: 29.56MIT Spring 2012: 25.43Harvard Spring 2012: 26.78Captain's Cove competition 2012: 24.50Harvard Fall 2012: 20.83MIT Fall 2012: 18.16Harvard Spring 2013: 19.40World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 17.55Harvard Fall 2013: 16.52Lexington Fall 2013: 16.09Lexington Spring 2014: 12.92US Nationals 2014: 14.85Harvard Fall 2014: 10.03Lexington Fall 2014: 12.18MIT Fall 2014: 11.22Yale Spring 2015: 14.35Lexington Spring 2015: 11.13Melrose Spring 2015: 11.48US Nationals 2015: 12.51Norwich Summer 2015: 12.07Lexington Fall 2015: 11.46Northeastern Fall 2015: 9.92MIT Fall 2015: 9.08Melrose Winter 2016: 9.47Weston Spring 2016: 9.97MIT Spring 2016: 10.01Northeastern Spring 2016: 11.81Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 9.03Lexington Summer 2016: 11.46Melrose Summer 2016: 9.70US Nationals 2016: 9.14Sharon Summer 2016: 10.56New York City Summer 2016: 10.52Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 11.42Princeton Fall 2016: 9.62Hudson Valley Open Fall 2016: 8.87Rockville Winter 2017: 10.63Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 11.71Ledgewood Winter Open 2017: 11.14WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 11.93New York City Winter 2017: 10.03MVCS Spring 2017: 9.71Weston Spring 2017: 10.43Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 10.90Big Cube Bash 2017: 10.01EZ Cubes Spring 2017: 9.40Midcoast Cubing 2017: 10.15Lexington Summer 2017: 10.10CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 10.70Sharon Summer 2017: 10.01Northwest Championships 2017: 10.00ODU Big Blue Fall 2017: 9.57Princeton Fall 2017: 10.49UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 10.24Weston Fall 2017: 10.21Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 9.99Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 10.51New York City Winter 2018: 10.14Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 11.53Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 9.83Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 10.50Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 9.86Rutgers Spring 2018: 9.95River Hill Spring 2018: 10.05New York City Spring 2018: 11.52BU Spring 2018: 9.51CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 9.66Quizzical Quabbin Qualifier 2018: 9.74Brooklyn 2018: 8.76CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.92Blue Cubed 2018: 9.57Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 10.12Kew Forest Open 2018: 10.15Princeton Fall 2018: 9.94New York City Fall 2018: 11.00CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 9.77Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 9.68SacCubing VI 2019: 10.72Princeton Winter 2019: 11.54Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 10.18SBU Spring 2019: 10.51Brooklyn 2019: 11.29CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.73Quabbin Summer 2019: 10.00Brooklyn Fall 2019: 10.25Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 9.84MIT Winter 2020: 10.85Princeton Winter 2020: 10.62Babylon Summer 2022: 10.14NJIT Spring 2023: 11.23Empire State Fall Favorites 2023: 10.40Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 10.95Manhattan Mini B 2023: 10.738.7629.5617 Dec 20119 Dec 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.