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Sammy Gordon

3×3 · top 1.6% of 288,433 all-time · competing since July 2023 · 2023GORD07

Sammy Gordon has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.24, set at Melbourne Summer 2026, puts him in the top 1.6% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 182nd in Australia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since July 2023, he has put 582 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.60 in July 2023 to 7.24, a 74% improvement. Sammy has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.6% of 288,433 all-time
7.24
signature single · Melbourne Summer 2026
582
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×37.2410.69
top 1.6%182 / 11,943
2×22.054.18
top 5.1%382 / 8,727
Pyraminx3.536.01
top 5.6%252 / 6,109
4×435.6239.37
top 7.4%197 / 3,108
5×51:04.761:14.88
top 8.3%117 / 1,412
3×3 one-handed20.6723.05
top 22.4%510 / 2,685
Skewb5.896.65
top 25.0%681 / 3,589
6×62:31.562:41.44
top 26.5%168 / 667
7×74:03.364:21.85
top 32.1%158 / 540
Megaminx1:50.491:57.73
top 40.8%511 / 1,313

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

Victorian Open 2023: 27.60Geelong Winter 2023: 20.37Melbourne Cubing for Kids Sunday 2023: 18.65Cranbourne Spring Sunday 2023: 16.68The Big Cube Melbourne 2023: 14.49Melbourne Cube Days 2023: 15.07Hampton Park Summer Saturday 2023: 12.95Melbourne Summer 2024: 13.07Altona Algorithms 2024: 12.36Solving In Sale 2024: 11.13Kensington May Saturday 2024: 11.25Australian Nationals 2024: 9.94Melbourne Cube Days 2024: 10.91Melbourne Summer 2025: 10.26Spark Melbourne February 2025: 10.32Puzzling Pakenham Saturday 2025: 8.24Melbourne Summer 2026: 7.247.2427.601 Jul 202324 Jan 2026

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-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 1.24 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.