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Samuel Hicking
2×2 · top 2.2% of 189,179 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022HICK03
Samuel Hicking has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.50, set at Fall River Cubikon 2023, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 876th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since July 2022, he has put 582 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 76% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.41 in July 2022 to 10.85, a 56% improvement. Samuel has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.50 | 4.04 | top 2.2% | 876 / 41,674 | |
| Pyraminx | 3.07 | 6.03 | top 3.9% | 1,051 / 29,168 | |
| 3×3 | 10.85 | 13.13 | top 10.1% | 5,534 / 60,666 | |
| Skewb | 3.91 | 8.44 | top 10.3% | 1,603 / 19,164 | |
| Clock | 10.47 | 12.80 | top 27.2% | 2,146 / 9,172 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 22.54 | 35.67 | top 27.6% | 3,596 / 15,900 | |
| 4×4 | 1:04.48 | 1:14.08 | top 41.3% | 6,831 / 19,354 | |
| Square-1 | 26.22 | 44.08 | top 42.0% | 2,768 / 6,846 | |
| Megaminx | 2:01.76 | 2:25.20 | top 46.8% | 3,532 / 8,026 | |
| 5×5 | 2:09.10 | — | top 55.0% | 4,717 / 9,537 |
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
- 24 Feb 2024Three personal bests in one day at Cardinal Cube Day 2024.
- 15 Apr 2023Three personal bests in one day at PBs in Palisades 2023.
- 5 Feb 2023Three personal bests in one day at Fall River Cubikon 2023.
- 21 Jan 2023First sub-15 3×3: 13.33 at Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023.
- 21 Jan 2023Four personal bests in one day at Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023.
- 17 Dec 2022Three personal bests in one day at Cubing in Cambridge 2022.
Competitions
- M Moves in Middlebury 2024 · 19 Oct 2024
- Apple Cider Open MA 2024 · 22 Jun 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Cardinal Cube Day 2024 · 24 Feb 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Connecticut Winter 2024 · 6 Jan 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Vermont Cubikon 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA New England Championship 2023 · 7 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Mystic Cubikon 2023 · 20 Aug 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Connecticut Spring 2023 · 13 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Middleboro Cubikon 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- PBs in Palisades 2023 · 15 Apr 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Saint John's Scramble 2023 · 1 Apr 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Northampton Winter A 2023 · 25 Feb 2023
- Fall River Cubikon 2023 · 5 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023 · 21 Jan 2023 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing in Cambridge 2022 · 17 Dec 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Naticube 2022 · 29 Oct 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Cubers Flood Watertown 2022 · 8 Oct 2022 — 5 personal bests set
- Amherst Open 2022 · 10 Sep 2022 — 4 personal bests set
- Cubing in Beverly 2022 · 27 Aug 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Granite State 2022 · 23 Jul 2022
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.
- Jacob Schwartz — met in 117 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Saisabari Ramesh — met in 105 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Derek White — met in 99 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,050 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,783 people have one; it is 0.07 away.
Targets move as he improves.