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Samuel Allen Tillman
3×3 · top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2023 · 2023TILL07
Samuel Allen Tillman has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.60, set at Pakje Open in Lent 2025, puts him in the top 6.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 174th in the Netherlands. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since September 2023, he has put 424 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 42.40 in September 2023 to 9.60, a 77% improvement. Samuel has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Netherlands | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 9.60 | 12.78 | top 6.4% | 174 / 2,294 | |
| 2×2 | 2.59 | 4.33 | top 9.8% | 207 / 1,665 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 20.13 | 31.12 | top 20.8% | 129 / 726 | |
| 4×4 | 1:19.69 | 1:24.09 | top 55.6% | 540 / 1,000 | |
| 5×5 | 2:25.79 | 2:51.05 | top 63.9% | 327 / 532 | |
| Pyraminx | 13.76 | 18.96 | top 76.7% | 1,050 / 1,283 | |
| Skewb | 16.95 | 21.27 | top 83.8% | 835 / 957 | |
| Square-1 | 1:02.28 | — | early days — 3 solves | 342 / 407 |
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
- 18 Oct 2025First sub-10 3×3: 9.97 at Take Your Time Ermelo 2025.
- 15 Nov 2024Three personal bests in one day at Dutch Nationals 2024.
- 23 Mar 2024First sub-15 3×3: 14.24 at Arnhem Open A 2024.
- 23 Mar 2024Three personal bests in one day at Arnhem Open A 2024.
- 13 Jan 2024Three personal bests in one day at Dutch Winter South 2024.
- 16 Dec 2023First sub-30 3×3: 19.93 at Take Your Time Ermelo 2023.
Competitions
- Breda Open 2026 · 18 Apr 2026 — 2 personal bests set
- Freezing Fryslân 2025 · 21 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Pakje Open in Lent 2025 · 6 Dec 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Take Your Time Ermelo 2025 · 18 Oct 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's Dutch Nationals 2025 · 5 Sep 2025
- Little LeideNxN 2025 · 10 Aug 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Start in Veenendaal 2025 · 22 Mar 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Leersum Squared 2025 · 8 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Alphen Cubing 2025 · 19 Jan 2025 — 1 personal best set
- Christmas Cubing Breda 2024 · 22 Dec 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Dutch Nationals 2024 · 15 Nov 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Dutch Open 2024 · 26 Oct 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Heerenveen Open 2024 · 15 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Arnhem Open A 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Dutch Winter South 2024 · 13 Jan 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Take Your Time Ermelo 2023 · 16 Dec 2023 — 5 personal bests set
- Dutch Autumn 2023 · 23 Sep 2023
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.
- Sebastiano Tronto — met in 86 rounds, finished ahead once
- Veerle Melis — met in 84 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
- Marc Dullemond — met in 78 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
Next targets
- A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.60 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.59 away.
Targets move as he improves.