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Sameer Sethuram

3×3 · top 0.35% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017SETH03

Sameer Sethuram has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.73, set at East Brunswick Open 2022, puts him in the top 0.35% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 229th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since May 2017, he has put 1,744 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.63 in May 2017 to 5.73, a 58% improvement. Sameer has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.35% of 284,439 all-time
5.73
signature single · East Brunswick Open 2022
1,744
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.737.55
top 0.35%229 / 59,724
2×21.132.09
top 0.85%358 / 40,951
4×427.9931.58
top 1.8%298 / 19,072
Pyraminx2.343.40
top 1.8%476 / 28,708
5×554.041:04.99
top 3.1%252 / 9,401
Square-18.2611.88
top 3.4%247 / 6,743
Skewb2.644.44
top 3.4%529 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed13.4715.91
top 5.2%737 / 15,683
6×61:53.192:03.64
top 8.4%291 / 4,196
Megaminx59.271:05.30
top 9.6%664 / 7,841
7×73:30.013:40.75
top 19.8%560 / 3,184
Clock12.1613.53
top 35.7%2,831 / 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

Big Cube Bash 2017: 13.63Lexington Summer 2017: 13.00Sharon Summer 2017: 11.30UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 9.75Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 9.89Penn Cube Day Winter 2018: 9.64Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 8.98Rutgers Spring 2018: 9.46No Place For DNF Spring 2018: 9.51Lower Moreland Spring 2018: 9.71CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 8.78New Hope Open Spring 2018: 8.41Pennsylvania 2018: 8.71Princeton Fall 2018: 9.39Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 7.36New Hope Open Winter 2019: 8.87CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 7.75Brooklyn 2019: 8.81Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 6.95CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 7.66Ridge Cubing Fall 2019: 7.06Brooklyn Fall 2019: 7.39No Place For DNF Fall 2019: 6.90Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 6.87Princeton Winter 2020: 6.86Skewbadelphia Winter 2020: 7.82Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 6.40East Brunswick Open 2022: 5.73Pretzel Mania 2022: 6.09Princeton Fall 2022: 6.67West Chester Fall 2022: 6.63Pretzel Mania 2023: 5.95Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 6.93Wilmington Warmup 2023: 6.83CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 6.07CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 5.74New Jersey Championship 2024: 8.065.7313.6313 May 201725 May 2024

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.

  • AJ Kamal — met in 272 rounds, finished ahead 75 times
  • Livia Kleiner — met in 270 rounds, finished ahead 58 times
  • Dana Yi — met in 252 rounds, finished ahead 71 times

Next targets

  • A sub-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.73 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.