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Sonja Black

2×2 · top 16.0% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2019 · 2019BLAC02

Sonja Black has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.15, set at Oregon Championship 2022, puts her in the top 16.0% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,261st in the United States. Across 84 competitions since March 2019, she has put 1,286 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 30 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 39.66 in March 2019 to 15.13, a 62% improvement. Sonja has entered 84 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 16.0% of 186,767 all-time
3.15
signature single · Oregon Championship 2022
1,286
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.157.41
top 16.0%6,261 / 40,951
Pyraminx6.2711.06
top 22.0%5,902 / 28,708
3×315.1319.31
top 24.9%13,523 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed25.8434.17
top 36.4%4,818 / 15,683
4×41:04.561:10.80
top 41.3%6,753 / 19,072
Megaminx2:09.532:19.78
top 51.0%3,809 / 7,841
3×3 Multi-Blind3 of 3 cubes · 19:22—
top 51.5%391 / 731
3×3 blindfolded3:10.174:55.91
top 55.3%1,172 / 2,092
5×52:17.702:27.67
top 59.8%5,131 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves55 moves—
early days — 3 solves1,801 / 2,040

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

CubingUSA Oregon Championship 2019: 39.66Puget Sound Spring 2019: 36.61Yakima Valley Cubing Spring 2019: 34.93CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 31.28Gaston Toe Twiddling 2019: 30.98Puget Sound Fall 2019: 28.85Yakima Side Events 2019: 28.68Oregon State Favorites 2019: 25.17SnoCo Fall 2019: 28.89Puget Sound NxNxN 2019: 26.49UCSD Winter 2020: 32.87Washington Championship 2020: 23.38PDX Cubing for Causes 2020: 27.02Central Washington Winter 2020: 28.49BC Cubing Comeback B 2021: 19.46Welcome Back Wisconsin 2 2021: 20.76SnoCo Goes Back to Square-1 2021: 19.46Richmond Open A 2021: 22.77Let's Try Again Spokane 2022: 22.69Welcome Back Portland 2022: 20.82PLU NxN 2022: 17.22Bothell Spring 2022: 20.56Rose City 2022: 21.15Odd Seattle Summer 2022: 19.99Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 19.67Oregon Championship 2022: 20.63Bellevue Cubing for Children's 2022: 19.48SnoCo NxN 2022: 16.18New Kent On The Block 2022: 19.25SnoCo Veteran's Weekend B 2022: 20.20Big Cubes in Bothell 2022: 19.12Lynnwood Winter 2023: 17.17Sleepless in Seattle 2023: 19.77Central Washington Evens 2023: 19.92Bothell Spring Open 2023: 18.73Washington Championship 2023: 18.41Kent Spring 2023: 20.84Mill Creek 2023: 24.71Bothell Summer 2023: 18.93CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 19.66Oregon Championship 2023: 20.57Kent Summer 2023: 17.77Lakewood Fall 2023: 21.94Odd Olympia 2023: 19.84SnoCo Veterans Day Weekend 2023: 18.36UW or U Don't 2023: 21.37Spokane Winter 2023: 20.04Kenmore Mini B 2024: 23.19Eugene Ice Cubing 2024: 20.54Lakewood Newcomers 2024: 18.85Olympia Classic 2024: 19.93PortlaNxNd 2024: 20.42Kent Spring 2024: 21.36Bellingham Spring 2024: 18.97CubingUSA Northwest Championship 2024: 15.35Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2024: 20.34BC Championship 2024: 19.21Oregon Championship 2024: 19.14Eugene Harvest Cubing 2024: 18.55Bellingham Fall 2024: 18.23Olympia Fall 2024: 17.84Bellevue Squan Fest 2 2024: 15.88Tacoma Winter 2025: 19.00Lakewood Newcomers 2025: 18.81Central Washington Evens 2025: 18.52Worlds Warmup Hillsboro 2025: 17.44Kent Spring 2025: 18.41Warm Up Seattle 2025: 18.89Coffee Cup Tacoma 2025: 15.13 Bellevue Cubing Afternoon 2025: 21.76Seattle Cube Cascade UW 2025: 22.68Kent Fall 2025: 17.44North Sound Spring 2026: 18.55Dawgs at Denny UW 2026: 18.06Kent Spring 2026: 19.19Seattle Summer 2026: 18.2515.1339.668 Mar 201911 Jul 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.

  • Ash Black — met in 271 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Sameer Aggarwal — met in 200 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Max Siauw — met in 182 rounds, finished ahead twice

Next targets

  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as she improves.