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Sophie Golding

3×3 · top 6.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022GOLD07

Sophie Golding has been competing for 4 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.47, set at Glasgow Autumn 2023, puts her in the top 6.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 452nd in the United Kingdom. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since May 2022, she has put 74 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Sophie has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.47
signature single · Glasgow Autumn 2023
74
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×39.4711.24
top 6.0%452 / 6,689
4×443.2150.92
top 16.0%367 / 2,071
2×23.504.72
top 20.2%1,142 / 4,895
Pyraminx7.369.62
top 30.8%1,242 / 3,656
Skewb8.6911.69
top 46.3%1,088 / 2,421
Megaminx2:12.352:27.58
top 52.4%596 / 966

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

Glasgow Open 2022: 10.13Tokyo Challenge IV 2023: 11.87Glasgow Autumn 2023: 9.479.4711.8728 May 202222 Sep 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.21 away.

Targets move as she improves.