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Sean Belke

3×3 · top 0.49% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014BELK01

Sean Belke has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.02, set at Severna Park Showdown 2017, puts him in the top 0.49% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 328th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 56 competitions since August 2014, he has put 2,623 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 86% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.77 in August 2014 to 6.02, a 70% improvement. Sean has entered 56 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.49% of 284,439 all-time
6.02
signature single · Severna Park Showdown 2017
2,623
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 86% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.027.61
top 0.49%328 / 59,724
4×425.7232.44
top 0.91%154 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed9.8312.80
top 0.94%149 / 15,683
2×21.422.36
top 1.8%721 / 40,951
Skewb2.253.45
top 2.1%304 / 18,907
5×551.5254.92
top 2.2%173 / 9,401
6×61:35.831:49.45
top 3.0%107 / 4,196
7×72:31.102:41.04
top 4.0%107 / 3,184
Pyraminx4.537.65
top 10.4%2,716 / 28,708
Square-113.5717.66
top 13.1%901 / 6,743
Megaminx1:07.301:21.90
top 14.1%960 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded2:18.712:34.21
top 39.5%832 / 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

US Nationals 2014: 19.77Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 14.69River Hill Winter 2015: 10.70Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 10.91Virginia Open Spring 2015: 10.37Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 9.33US Nationals 2015: 9.83Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 7.90Virginia Open Fall 2015: 8.41River Hill Fall 2015: 7.53Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 9.03Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 7.93Virginia Open Spring 2016: 7.60Severna Park Spring 2016: 7.31Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 8.37US Nationals 2016: 8.34Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 7.67Princeton Fall 2016: 7.05Severna Park Fall 2016: 7.77TJHSST Fall 2016: 7.33Rockville Winter 2017: 7.82Virginia Open Winter 2017: 7.30ODU Big Blue Spring 2017: 7.59Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 6.67EZ Cubes Spring 2017: 6.21CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 8.22Rally In The Valley 2017: 6.69Maryland 2017: 6.51TJHSST Fall 2017: 7.36Severna Park Showdown 2017: 6.02Northern Neck Winter 2018: 6.28Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 6.96NovaCube 2018: 7.43Tea Time Spring 2018: 7.45Maryland 2018: 6.59CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 6.95Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 7.19Quinnipiac 2018: 7.95TJHSST Fall 2018: 7.36Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 7.43Northern Neck Winter 2019: 7.07CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 7.76River Hill Spring 2019: 7.48Northern Virginia Summer 2019: 7.38CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 6.58Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 6.44Solving Hunger Virginia 2019: 6.67Potomac Speedcubing 2020: 8.02Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 7.19Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 7.04CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2022: 6.67Slow N Steady Fall 2022: 6.26Slow N Steady Spring 2023: 7.46Cougar Qualifier 2023: 7.11CubingUSA Mid-Atlantic Championship 2023: 7.44CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 7.476.0219.771 Aug 201427 Jul 2023

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 0.02 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as he improves.