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Samantha Raskind

2×2 · top 1.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since February 2013 · 2013RASK01

Samantha Raskind has been competing for 14 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.19, set at Northeastern Fall 2015, puts her in the top 1.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 419th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since February 2013, she has put 2,073 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 22.86 in February 2013 to 7.40, a 68% improvement. Samantha has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.0% of 186,767 all-time
1.19
signature single · Northeastern Fall 2015
2,073
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.192.98
top 1.0%419 / 40,951
3×37.409.37
top 1.8%1,103 / 59,724
4×429.8533.92
top 2.8%449 / 19,072
5×553.891:01.78
top 3.0%243 / 9,401
7×72:45.892:57.91
top 6.8%186 / 3,184
6×61:51.002:01.29
top 7.5%260 / 4,196
3×3 one-handed16.5319.73
top 11.4%1,499 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.327.07
top 15.2%3,984 / 28,708
Megaminx1:14.731:25.32
top 18.5%1,256 / 7,841
Skewb5.186.82
top 19.5%3,115 / 18,907
Square-153.2557.56
top 78.9%5,244 / 6,743
3×3 Fewest Moves60 moves—
early days — 1 solve1,918 / 2,040

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

Harvard Spring 2013: 22.86MIT Spring 2013: 19.47World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 13.99CCFC Fall 2013: 12.17Harvard Fall 2013: 16.66Lexington Fall 2013: 13.31River Hill Winter 2014: 12.11Williams Winter 2014: 11.96Yale Spring 2014: 11.77Cornell Open Spring 2014: 11.14CCFC BLD Day 2014: 11.30US Nationals 2014: 9.93GCC Fall 2014: 9.83Harvard Fall 2014: 10.17Lexington Fall 2014: 9.64MIT Fall 2014: 8.90Williams Winter 2015: 9.54Lexington Spring 2015: 8.73Melrose Spring 2015: 8.70US Nationals 2015: 9.02Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2015: 9.02Lexington Fall 2015: 8.12Northeastern Fall 2015: 10.08Sharon Winter 2016: 8.00Weston Spring 2016: 8.92Northeastern Spring 2016: 8.75Lexington Summer 2016: 8.67US Nationals 2016: 8.02Quabbin Open 2016: 9.81Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2016: 8.58Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 9.03Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 8.88World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.04Weston Fall 2017: 8.95Cubing with the Viking 2017: 7.40Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 9.05BA Cube Fest 2018: 8.52WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 8.97BU Spring 2018: 8.63MIT Fall 2018: 8.64CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.08CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 8.07CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.07Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 9.637.4022.862 Feb 20133 Jul 2025

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.40 away.

Targets move as she improves.