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Alex Hagen

3×3 · top 13.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2013 · 2013HAGE01

Alex Hagen has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.78, set at MIT Fall 2015, puts him in the top 13.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,044th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since October 2013, he has put 140 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.01 in October 2013 to 11.78, a 41% improvement. Alex has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.1% of 284,439 all-time
11.78
signature single · MIT Fall 2015
140
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×311.7812.53
top 13.1%7,044 / 59,724
Pyraminx5.6110.24
top 17.2%4,550 / 28,708
2×23.264.54
top 17.3%6,774 / 40,951
4×457.911:06.65
top 34.2%5,488 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed30.4244.21
top 47.6%6,484 / 15,683
Clock27.11
early days — 2 solves7,107 / 8,927
Skewb16.3336.64
top 82.3%15,779 / 18,907

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

Yale Fall 2013: 20.01Lexington Fall 2013: 16.09Harvard Fall 2014: 15.36MIT Fall 2014: 12.29Northeastern Fall 2015: 12.66MIT Fall 2015: 11.7811.7820.0126 Oct 201312 Dec 2015

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.

  • Tim Reynolds — met in 33 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Tim Wong — met in 30 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Jonah Crosby — met in 28 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.78 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.61 away.

Targets move as he improves.