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Sarah Gooler

3×3 · top 30.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2025 · 2025GOOL01

Sarah Gooler has been competing for a year. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.82, set at PBs in Palisades Open 2026, puts her in the top 30.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,759th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since February 2025, she has put 100 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 33.75 in February 2025 to 16.82, a 50% improvement. Sarah has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 30.4% of 284,439 all-time
16.82
signature single · PBs in Palisades Open 2026
100
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.8218.66
top 30.4%16,759 / 59,724
2×24.796.61
top 36.6%14,644 / 40,951
Pyraminx8.3710.68
top 39.4%11,262 / 28,708
4×41:12.731:38.90
top 49.5%8,317 / 19,072
Skewb13.0131.94
top 70.7%13,308 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed48.76
top 75.6%10,999 / 15,683
6×67:27.097:52.26
early days — 3 solves4,040 / 4,196

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

Empire State Winter 2025: 33.75Catskills Spring 2025: 27.19Worlds Prep in Palisades 2025: 22.88PBs in Palisades Open 2026: 16.82PBs in Palisades Spring 2026: 19.51NAC Prep in Palisades 2026: 18.3116.8233.758 Feb 202520 Jun 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 her.

  • Yuki Nagai — met in 24 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Ryan Kern — met in 22 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Rex Ozsvath — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.82 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as she improves.