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Samuel Brooks Dowdy

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022DOWD02

Samuel Brooks Dowdy has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.92, set at Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 758th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 30 competitions since July 2022, he has put 1,069 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.40 in July 2022 to 6.92, a 68% improvement. Samuel has entered 30 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.92
signature single · Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026
1,069
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.928.07
top 1.2%758 / 59,724
2×21.522.57
top 2.2%888 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.815.15
top 3.0%810 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed15.2019.51
top 8.5%1,137 / 15,683
Skewb3.746.36
top 9.2%1,412 / 18,907
4×448.091:02.88
top 22.2%3,373 / 19,072
Square-118.8929.68
top 25.4%1,680 / 6,743
Clock13.0415.20
top 39.8%3,164 / 8,927
Megaminx2:02.272:25.96
top 47.0%3,473 / 7,841

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

Owings Mills Summer 2022: 21.40Silver Spring Summer 2022: 15.56Think In Fink Fall 2022: 14.92Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 16.53Pretzel Mania 2023: 10.88Virginia Re-Open Spring 2023: 10.09Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 10.06TJHSST Spring 2023: 10.81Clash at Carlisle Spring 2023: 11.34CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 10.11Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 8.79Virginia Championship 2023: 9.68MoCo Cubing Winter 2024: 9.29NoVa Cube Winter 2024: 7.85UMBC Winter 2024: 8.25Slow N Steady Spring 2024: 8.26Bethesda Summer Showdown 2024: 9.08Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 7.21Gaithersburg Back to School 2024: 8.82CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2024: 8.98River Hill Fall 2024: 8.65PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 8.43Slow N Steady UMD Spring 2025: 8.37River Hill Spring 2025: 8.01UMBC Spring 2025: 7.37TJHSST Spring 2025: 7.76Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.62Virginia Championship 2025: 8.25CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 8.38Derwood Cubing Derby Spring 2026: 6.926.9221.4016 Jul 20229 May 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 — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.92 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.