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Samuel Krasne

2×2 · top 1.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022KRAS02

Samuel Krasne has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.32, set at Chemung Cubing 2023, puts him in the top 1.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 589th in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 63 competitions since July 2022, he has put 1,780 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 74% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 44.37 in July 2022 to 8.28, an 81% improvement. Samuel has entered 63 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.4% of 186,767 all-time
1.32
signature single · Chemung Cubing 2023
1,780
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 74% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.322.71
top 1.4%589 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.334.77
top 1.8%469 / 28,708
3×38.2811.01
top 3.3%1,868 / 59,724
Skewb3.277.07
top 6.4%993 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed18.3721.46
top 16.1%2,072 / 15,683
4×447.041:02.63
top 20.9%3,171 / 19,072
Clock10.4712.30
top 27.4%2,104 / 8,927
Megaminx2:21.942:39.46
top 57.4%4,316 / 7,841
5×52:47.91—
early days — 2 solves6,557 / 9,401

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

New York Championship 2022: 44.37Westport Summer 2022: 32.60Amherst Open 2022: 29.99WCC Western Championship 2022: 32.95New York Yopen 2022: 24.29Puzzling in Providence 2023: 16.71Mum's the Word 2023: 18.49Troy Story 2023: 13.88Pioneer Valley Cubing A 2023: 14.47Fall River Cubikon 2023: 18.28Pretzel Mania 2023: 15.52PBs in Palisades 2023: 18.22Westport Warmup 2023: 24.68CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 18.12Chemung Cubing 2023: 14.73Pretzel Mania Summer 2023: 12.63CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 13.18Troy Story 2024: 17.09Cubing in Mount Kisco 2024: 14.24PBs in Palisades 2024: 16.94Cardinal Cube Day 2024: 12.60NYU Winter 2024: 13.02Northampton Newcomers D 2024: 10.44Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 11.58Ridgefield Spring 2024: 14.05Edgemont Cubing 2024: 12.95New Jersey Championship 2024: 12.84Pennsylvania Championship 2024: 11.06Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 12.27Westport Summer 2024: 10.10Mystic Cubikon 2024: 9.49Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 10.20New York Championship 2024: 9.09Tri-State Corner Comms PA 2024: 11.95An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 9.54Christmas City Cubing PA 2024: 12.11M Moves in Middlebury 2024: 12.87Long Island Winter Solstice 2024: 13.36Pop Off Princeton 2025: 10.73PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 12.44Hudson Valley Winter 2025: 14.83Fall River Cubikon 2025: 11.62PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 10.13PBs in Palisades Winter 2025: 9.97River Hill Spring 2025: 11.08Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 10.57Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.28Long Island Summer 2025: 9.78Mystic Cubikon 2025: 9.56Connecticut Championship 2025: 9.72Brookhaven Summer 2025: 10.27CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2025: 9.65Westport Fall 2025: 9.83Westport Icebreaker 2026: 11.12Wide Moves & Waterslides CT 2026: 8.67PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 13.59Liberty Science Center Open B 2026: 10.73PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 12.00Westport Summer 2026: 8.90Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 11.04Woonsocket Cubikon 2026: 11.608.2844.372 Jul 202216 Aug 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.