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Sara Gillmore

3×3 · top 77.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2005 · 2005GILL01

Sara Gillmore has been competing for 21 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 40.81, set at World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007, puts her in the top 77.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 47,507th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since September 2005, she has put 40 official solves on the record across three events. Her 3×3 best has come down from 56.09 in September 2005 to 40.81, a 27% improvement. Sara has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 77.8% of 284,439 all-time
40.81
signature single · World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007
40
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×340.8154.40
top 77.8%47,507 / 59,724
4×42:56.783:09.01
top 96.1%18,474 / 19,072
5×55:14.77
early days — 2 solves9,245 / 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

Idaho Open 2005: 56.09Rubik's World Championship 2005: 52.53US Nationals 2006: 1:01.84Idaho Open 2007: 48.81World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 40.8140.811:01.8417 Sep 20055 Oct 2007

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 17 Sep 2005First competition: Idaho Open 2005. A 56.09 3×3 single to start from.

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-40 3×3 single — 218,634 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
  • A sub-2:00 4×4 single — 68,574 people have one; it is 56.78 away.

Targets move as she improves.