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Adam Greenwood

3×3 · top 14.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2011 · 2011GREE03

Adam Greenwood has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.22, set at Manchester Open 2016, puts him in the top 14.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,012th in the United Kingdom. Across 69 competitions since November 2011, he has put 1,652 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.47 in November 2011 to 12.22, a 30% improvement. Adam has entered 69 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 14.7% of 284,439 all-time
12.22
signature single · Manchester Open 2016
1,652
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×312.2214.41
top 14.7%1,012 / 6,689
4×445.3049.02
top 18.7%422 / 2,071
5×51:22.291:31.34
top 20.9%279 / 1,151
2×23.685.86
top 22.4%1,261 / 4,895
3×3 blindfolded1:42.252:28.29
top 27.4%120 / 311
6×62:51.332:58.23
top 36.8%214 / 548
3×3 one-handed26.6436.21
top 38.4%677 / 1,851
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 7 cubes · 57:52—
top 40.3%66 / 126
7×74:36.834:41.17
top 43.4%210 / 459
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves49.00
top 44.7%181 / 372
Megaminx2:01.552:07.08
top 46.6%538 / 966
Clock22.39—
top 71.1%888 / 1,232
Pyraminx12.8422.45
top 72.1%2,813 / 3,656
Skewb17.51—
early days — 2 solves2,087 / 2,421

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

UK Open 2011: 17.47Rapid Dash Open 2012: 14.63UK Open 2012: 15.30Leicester Open 2013: 14.75Cambridge Open 2013: 14.61Guildford Open 2013: 14.53Cuthberts Open 2013: 14.35UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 13.51Nottingham Open 2014: 13.58Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 13.97Oxford Open 2014: 14.54Nottingham Summer 2014: 13.68Welcome To Cambridge 2014: 14.42Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 16.01ABHC 2014: 14.74Cuthberts Open 2014: 14.24UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 15.65Oxford Winter 2014: 14.35Harrow Spring 2015: 14.73Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 12.49Welwyn Garden City 2015: 14.35Irish Championship 2015: 14.28The Glorious North 2015: 12.95August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 14.29Cuthberts Open 2015: 15.53UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 14.64Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 12.60Manchester Open 2016: 12.22Exeter Open 2016: 14.83Irish Championship 2016: 14.72European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 13.35August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 15.75Guildford Open 2017: 14.30UK Championship 2017: 14.62Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 13.98Welsh Open 2018: 13.38Manchester Open 2018: 13.43Guildford Open 2018: 13.62High Wycombe Open 2018: 13.97Hastings Open 2018: 13.08August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 12.94Brugge Open 2018: 13.30Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 15.03Cambridge Open 2018: 14.08Fontwell Open 2019: 14.01August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 14.76Liechtenstein Open 2019: 13.65UK Championship 2019: 14.51Guildford Open 2020: 14.60Fontwell Open 2020: 13.4412.2217.4712 Nov 20118 Feb 2020

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 5.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.