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AJ Saliman

3×3 · top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2014 · 2014SALI06

AJ Saliman has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.00, set at Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017, puts him in the top 7.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,099th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since December 2014, he has put 147 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.88 in December 2014 to 10.00, a 50% improvement. AJ has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.00
signature single · Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017
147
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.0011.86
top 7.4%4,099 / 59,724
2×22.714.88
top 11.0%4,349 / 40,951
4×457.321:06.37
top 33.5%5,347 / 19,072
5×52:07.692:22.47
top 54.0%4,573 / 9,401
Skewb9.9012.21
top 54.3%9,836 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed53.11
early days — 3 solves11,719 / 15,683
6×65:56.05
early days — 1 solve3,751 / 4,196
Pyraminx33.79
early days — 2 solves28,552 / 28,708

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

VanCubing Winter 2014: 19.88Puget Sound Open 2015: 14.99PDX Cubing Beta 2015: 13.71US Nationals 2016: 14.02Puget Sound Winter 2017: 10.48Puget Sound Fall 2017: 10.58Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017: 10.0010.0019.8813 Dec 20142 Dec 2017

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 2.00 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.