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Samuel Pike

3×3 · top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022PIKE03

Samuel Pike has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.79, set at New Hampshire Summer 2024, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,419th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since April 2022, he has put 659 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.01 in April 2022 to 7.79, a 29% improvement. Samuel has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.79
signature single · New Hampshire Summer 2024
659
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.799.07
top 2.4%1,419 / 59,724
2×21.643.36
top 2.8%1,078 / 40,951
4×431.3939.81
top 3.7%597 / 19,072
5×51:06.081:15.28
top 9.1%711 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed15.9417.95
top 10.1%1,334 / 15,683
Pyraminx5.909.43
top 19.2%5,129 / 28,708
Clock10.1811.52
top 26.0%2,002 / 8,927
Megaminx1:32.791:44.07
top 29.9%2,100 / 7,841
Skewb6.9811.08
top 33.5%5,622 / 18,907
6×62:47.862:56.19
early days — 3 solves1,258 / 4,196
7×74:25.695:10.35
early days — 3 solves1,124 / 3,184
Square-126.0035.96
top 41.5%2,685 / 6,743

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

Saint John's Spring 2022: 11.01Garden City Winter 2023: 10.65Maine Spring 2023: 11.09Cubing in Cambridge 2023: 9.23Panthers Cube Day 2023: 9.07Be Quick in Brunswick 2023: 8.61Salem Cubikon 2024: 9.19New Hampshire Summer 2024: 7.79A Friday in Ashfield 2024: 7.92Orono Open 2025: 8.61Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 8.07CubingUSA New England Championship 2025: 9.12Phillips Exeter Cube Day 2025: 9.37Skowhegan Puzzlefest 2026: 8.68Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026: 8.08Star City ME Summer 2026: 7.957.7911.099 Apr 202215 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.79 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.