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Samuel Knoll

3×3 · top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2015 · 2015KNOL01

Samuel Knoll has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.01, set at Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019, puts him in the top 1.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 820th in the United States. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 39 competitions since July 2015, he has put 1,333 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.59 in July 2015 to 7.01, an 80% improvement. Samuel has entered 39 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.3% of 284,439 all-time
7.01
signature single · Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019
1,333
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.019.06
top 1.3%820 / 59,724
2×21.793.12
top 3.5%1,386 / 40,951
Skewb2.776.19
top 3.9%612 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed13.3919.11
top 5.1%717 / 15,683
5×559.091:05.27
top 5.1%424 / 9,401
4×433.4238.17
top 5.3%820 / 19,072
Square-111.1512.67
top 8.3%596 / 6,743
7×73:06.933:23.15
top 12.4%340 / 3,184
Pyraminx5.108.15
top 13.8%3,602 / 28,708
6×62:07.192:12.55
top 14.2%517 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves31 moves37.67
top 17.4%385 / 2,040
Clock10.6814.04
top 28.5%2,206 / 8,927
Megaminx1:31.771:41.94
top 29.3%2,051 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded4:08.85
early days — 1 solve1,460 / 2,092

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

US Nationals 2015: 35.59Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 29.04Liberty Science 2015: 18.84Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 20.39Big Apple Spring 2016: 18.32Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 17.81Severna Park Fall 2016: 16.83Rockville Winter 2017: 15.20Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 14.39NovaCube 2017: 13.07Sharon Summer 2017: 12.23Maryland 2017: 13.46UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 11.10Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 10.04Lower Moreland Spring 2018: 8.65North Plainfield Open 2018: 10.68CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 11.20New Hope Open Spring 2018: 10.27Pennsylvania 2018: 9.99Princeton Fall 2018: 10.27Lower Moreland Fall 2018: 7.26CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 10.36Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 7.71New Hope Open Winter 2019: 8.49Princeton Winter 2019: 8.23CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 7.82Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 8.38George School Open 2019: 9.25Arcadia Summer 2019: 8.12Massachusetts Championship 2019: 7.14CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 9.26Clash at Carlisle Fall 2019: 7.01No Place For DNF Fall 2019: 8.64Scranton Scramble 2020: 9.00Skewbadelphia Winter 2020: 8.40Flower City Cube Fest 2022: 7.797.0135.5931 Jul 201530 Jul 2022

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.

  • Livia Kleiner — met in 218 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
  • AJ Kamal — met in 215 rounds, finished ahead 25 times
  • Will Callan — met in 199 rounds, finished ahead 16 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.01 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.