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Samantha Ricks
3×3 · top 8.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022RICK01
Samantha Ricks has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.19, set at Utah Ice Cubing 2023, puts her in the top 8.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,409th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 12 competitions since May 2022, she has put 337 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.49 in May 2022 to 10.19, a 24% improvement. Samantha has entered twelve competitions, more competitions than 94% 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 | 10.19 | 12.22 | top 8.0% | 4,409 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 4.43 | 6.26 | top 13.9% | 2,171 / 18,907 | |
| 2×2 | 3.63 | 5.58 | top 21.8% | 8,543 / 40,951 | |
| Megaminx | 1:39.96 | 1:59.47 | top 34.6% | 2,454 / 7,841 | |
| Pyraminx | 7.84 | 8.94 | top 34.9% | 9,854 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 26.49 | 37.44 | top 38.0% | 5,054 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 1:05.56 | 1:14.63 | top 42.4% | 6,963 / 19,072 | |
| Clock | 14.81 | 16.06 | top 47.2% | 3,814 / 8,927 | |
| 5×5 | 2:36.97 | — | top 69.1% | 6,060 / 9,401 |
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
- 22 Oct 2022Four personal bests in one day at Utah Championship 2022.
- 27 Aug 2022Three personal bests in one day at Back to School Utah 2022.
- 20 May 2022First competition: Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022. A 13.49 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Back to School Utah 2024 · 24 Aug 2024
- Utah Snowball Bash 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Valley Open 2023 · 9 Sep 2023
- Back to School Utah 2023 · 19 Aug 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Summer Side Events B 2023 · 1 Jul 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Salt Lake Utah Summer 2023 · 19 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah Megacomp 2023 · 25 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Ice Cubing 2023 · 28 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Utah Snowball Bash 2022 · 10 Dec 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Utah Championship 2022 · 22 Oct 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Back to School Utah 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Utah's California Gull Extravaganza 2022 · 20 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 her.
- Eric Pesci — met in 71 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Skye Bateman — met in 64 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Isaac Myers — met in 62 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
- A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.43 away.
Targets move as she improves.