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Samuel Fang

Square-1 · top 0.095% of 25,272 all-time · competing since March 2014 · 2014FANG01

Samuel Fang has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 4.45, set at CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022, puts him in the top 0.095% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 12th in the United States. Until April 2022, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 66 competitions since March 2014, he has put 2,989 official solves on the record across 16 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.37 in March 2014 to 6.29, a 68% improvement. Samuel has entered 66 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 0.095% of 25,272 all-time
4.45
signature single · CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022
2,989
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Square-14.456.38
top 0.095%12 / 6,743
Pyraminx1.572.85
top 0.51%161 / 28,708
3×36.298.06
top 0.68%446 / 59,724
2×21.101.76
top 0.77%317 / 40,951
4×427.9232.43
top 1.8%291 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed12.2117.09
top 3.3%501 / 15,683
Skewb2.634.22
top 3.4%517 / 18,907
Clock5.446.97
top 5.6%430 / 8,927
Megaminx1:02.481:14.73
top 11.3%765 / 7,841
5×51:12.741:18.95
top 13.6%1,041 / 9,401
6×62:12.752:31.33
top 16.8%597 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves35.33
top 20.4%446 / 2,040
3×3 blindfolded1:34.152:02.18
top 24.6%501 / 2,092
7×73:49.084:05.56
top 26.8%753 / 3,184
4×4 blindfolded12:04.00—
early days — 2 solves276 / 440
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 16:57—
early days — 2 solves545 / 731

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

Yale Spring 2014: 19.37US Nationals 2014: 14.86Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 13.69Manhasset Fall 2015: 10.91Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 11.27Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 10.96Manhasset Spring 2016: 8.76New York City Summer 2016: 9.07Princeton Fall 2016: 10.04Clifton Winter 2017: 9.57Ledgewood Winter Open 2017: 10.01Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 10.58Big Cube Bash 2017: 10.84Princeton Fall 2017: 8.96North Plainfield Open 2018: 8.99CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 9.13New Hope Open Spring 2018: 9.38Quinnipiac 2018: 10.40Kew Forest Open 2018: 9.32Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 8.05Lower Moreland Fall 2018: 7.92Princeton Winter 2019: 8.12CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 8.74Long Island Winter 2019: 7.86George School Open 2019: 8.51Brooklyn 2019: 9.69Massachusetts Championship 2019: 8.41CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 7.90SBU Fall 2019: 7.04Babylon Winter 2020: 8.34Empire State Summer A 2021: 8.58Babylon Fall 2021: 8.37Welcome Back Texas 2021: 7.33CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 8.11Westport Summer 2022: 6.35Pretzel Mania 2022: 7.22New York Yopen 2022: 7.76West Chester Fall 2022: 7.83PBs in Palisades 2023: 7.25CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 7.45CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.47Cubes on the Bayside 2023: 7.83Manhattan Mini D 2023: 7.32New York New Year 2024: 7.79GCU Winter 2024: 8.13NYU Winter 2024: 6.99Great Peconic Bay Spring 2024: 7.81Spring into Summit 2024: 8.22Cubes on the Bayside Summer 2024: 6.63Flushing Glow AM 2024: 8.31Flushing Glow Open PM 2025: 7.34PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 6.29Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 6.80Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.586.2919.3730 Mar 20142 Jul 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-4 Square-1 single — 11 people have one; it is 0.45 away.
  • A sub-1 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.