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Samuel Low

Pyraminx · top 0.46% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018LOWS01

Samuel Low has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 1.53, set at Prescott Spring 2026, puts him in the top 0.46% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 140th in the United States. Until March 2013, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since January 2018, he has put 719 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.03 in January 2018 to 6.12, a 59% improvement. Samuel has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 0.46% of 129,321 all-time
1.53
signature single · Prescott Spring 2026
719
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx1.532.27
top 0.46%140 / 28,708
3×36.128.05
top 0.56%371 / 59,724
2×21.572.72
top 2.5%970 / 40,951
4×430.8232.67
top 3.4%535 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed13.2616.77
top 4.8%681 / 15,683
Square-111.5714.42
top 9.0%645 / 6,743
Megaminx1:04.241:13.22
top 12.2%831 / 7,841
Skewb4.646.29
top 15.5%2,435 / 18,907
5×51:15.311:25.09
top 15.6%1,204 / 9,401
Clock8.6310.20
top 18.1%1,395 / 8,927
3×3 blindfolded4:04.84—
early days — 2 solves1,435 / 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

South Enough 2018: 15.03Bay Area Speedcubin' 11 2018: 13.34SacCubing V 2018: 13.22SacCubing VIII 2019: 10.06Bay Area Speedcubin' 21 2019: 8.92Cal Poly SLO Spring 2022: 7.48Bay Area Speedcubin' 29 AM 2022: 7.53Arizona Speedcubing Spring 2023: 6.12Cubing in Glendale 2023: 7.45Bay Area Speedcubin' 50 - Berkeley 2023: 7.27Sonoran Side Events 2023: 6.91Phoenix Cubing Open 2023: 7.19Prescott Cubing Winter 2024: 6.96Santa Barbara Winter 2025: 6.78Prescott Winter 2025: 6.15Lopes Up AZ 2026: 7.14Prescott Spring 2026: 6.926.1215.0313 Jan 201819 Apr 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 Pyraminx single — 49 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.