People · United States
Sam Stein
3×3 · top 25.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022STEI01
Sam Stein has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.21, set at Middleboro Cubikon 2023, puts him in the top 25.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,675th in the United States. Across 7 competitions since May 2022, he has put 98 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.64 in May 2022 to 15.21, a 52% improvement. Sam has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 15.21 | 23.37 | top 25.1% | 13,675 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 3.91 | 5.49 | top 25.3% | 9,944 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.04 | 15.47 | top 28.2% | 7,768 / 28,708 | |
| Skewb | 15.65 | 19.34 | top 80.3% | 15,362 / 18,907 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 6 May 2023First sub-20 3×3: 15.21 at Middleboro Cubikon 2023.
- 3 Dec 2022First sub-30 3×3: 28.22 at New York Yopen 2022.
- 3 Dec 2022Three personal bests in one day at New York Yopen 2022.
- 7 May 2022First competition: Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022. A 31.64 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Great Peconic Bay Spring 2024 · 20 Apr 2024
- CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023 · 17 Jun 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Middleboro Cubikon 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- New York Yopen 2022 · 3 Dec 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Babylon Summer 2022 · 18 Sep 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Silver Spring Summer 2022 · 13 Aug 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Moose On The Loose Cubikon 2022 · 7 May 2022
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.
- Jacob Schwartz — met in 14 rounds, never finished ahead
- Charles Amarello — met in 13 rounds, never finished ahead
- Daniel Goldstein — met in 12 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.21 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.91 away.
Targets move as he improves.