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Sean Saito

3×3 · top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014SAIT02

Sean Saito has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.55, set at SoCal Supercomp 2016, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,221st in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 36 competitions since May 2014, he has put 1,025 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 51% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.80 in August 2014 to 7.55, a 75% improvement. Sean has entered 36 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time
7.55
signature single · SoCal Supercomp 2016
1,025
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 51% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.559.69
top 2.1%1,221 / 59,724
2×21.702.93
top 3.1%1,192 / 40,951
Pyraminx2.994.89
top 3.6%953 / 28,708
Skewb3.115.50
top 5.5%861 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed13.7319.22
top 5.6%782 / 15,683
4×445.2549.21
top 18.6%2,819 / 19,072
3×3 blindfolded1:43.82—
top 28.0%580 / 2,092
Square-124.6235.44
top 38.4%2,491 / 6,743
5×52:04.362:15.09
top 52.0%4,376 / 9,401
6×63:24.363:50.63
early days — 3 solves1,973 / 4,196
4×4 blindfolded9:44.60—
early days — 2 solves237 / 440
Megaminx2:39.46—
top 65.7%5,030 / 7,841

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

Nisei Week 2014: 30.80Antelope Valley Fall 2014: 19.16Caltech Fall Open 2014: 15.25Newport Winter Open 2014: 15.73Nub Open 2015: 14.74St. Francis Winter Open 2015: 14.38Caltech Winter Open 2015: 10.64Orange Coast Puzzle Meet 2015: 12.68SoCal Supercomp 2015: 15.55Nisei Week 2015: 11.53Irvine Fall 2015: 12.46Caltech Fall 2015: 11.56Caltech Winter 2016: 10.30Newport Spring 2016: 10.28St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 10.42Poly Cubed 2016: 9.60SoCal Supercomp 2016: 7.55US Nationals 2016: 10.13Nisei Week 2016: 11.69Newport Fall 2016: 10.21Caltech Winter 2017: 9.11OCSEF Open 2017: 9.25Cerritos Open 2017: 9.36Northwest Championships 2017: 9.24Nisei Week 2017: 9.24Newport Fall 2017: 9.75TF3I San Diego 2017: 9.01Poly Cubed 2017: 9.08Irvine Winter 2018: 8.61A Bruin Cube Day 2018: 9.17West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 8.95Poly Cubed at Pomona 2025: 8.09Westerns Warmup Riverside A 2026: 8.367.5530.809 Aug 201416 May 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 1.55 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.70 away.

Targets move as he improves.