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Sarah Katz

3×3 · top 74.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014KATZ03

Sarah Katz has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 38.13, set at Cape Town 2015, puts her in the top 74.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,358th in South Africa. Across 6 competitions since November 2014, she has put 84 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 46.43 in November 2014 to 38.13, an 18% improvement. Sarah has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 74.6% of 284,439 all-time
38.13
signature single · Cape Town 2015
84
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×338.1346.73
top 74.6%1,358 / 2,164
Pyraminx13.7117.29
top 76.5%674 / 946
2×211.9816.67
top 84.3%1,119 / 1,510

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

Johannesburg 2014: 46.43Cape Town 2014: 44.77Cape Town 2015: 38.13Cape Town Open 2016: 43.02Cape Town 2016: 39.20Speedcubes Cape Town 2019: 43.3638.1346.4323 Nov 201420 Jan 2019

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.

Next targets

  • A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 8.13 away.
  • A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 86,891 people have one; it is 1.71 away.

Targets move as she improves.