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Alex Johnson

3×3 · top 0.58% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2014 · 2014JOHN04

Alex Johnson has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.15, set at Berkeley Spring 2016, puts him in the top 0.58% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 386th in the United States. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 34 competitions since June 2014, he has put 1,047 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.96 in June 2014 to 6.15, a 68% improvement. Alex has entered 34 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.58% of 284,439 all-time
6.15
signature single · Berkeley Spring 2016
1,047
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.158.06
top 0.58%386 / 59,724
2×21.643.01
top 2.8%1,078 / 40,951
4×431.2236.61
top 3.6%582 / 19,072
Pyraminx3.655.33
top 6.1%1,560 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed14.6417.33
top 7.4%990 / 15,683
Skewb3.886.64
top 10.1%1,547 / 18,907
5×51:15.661:25.42
top 15.8%1,226 / 9,401
6×62:58.853:18.16
top 40.6%1,481 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves41.67
top 44.7%969 / 2,040
Square-129.3736.93
top 48.2%3,144 / 6,743

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

BASC 3: Flagj Day 2014: 18.96Berkeley Summer 2014: 15.28BASC 4: Día de los Cubos 2014: 12.67Berkeley Fall 2014: 11.30Newport Winter Open 2014: 11.04Berkeley Winter 2015: 10.50BASC 5: Everything But 2x2 2015: 10.24Berkeley Spring 2015: 9.34SPCS Stanford Spring 2015: 10.01BASC 6 2015: 7.81SoCal Supercomp 2015: 7.13BASC 7 2015: 8.90Berkeley Summer 2015: 7.81Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2015: 7.23Bay Area Speedcubin' 8 2016: 8.42Berkeley Winter 2016: 7.25Berkeley Spring 2016: 6.15Bay Area Speedcubin' 9 2016: 6.59SoCal Supercomp 2016: 7.44US Nationals 2016: 6.37Berkeley Summer 2016: 8.03Armin Open 2017: 7.89MVCS Spring 2017: 6.40SacCubing I 2017: 6.52Berkeley Spring 2017: 6.726.25 Bay Area 2017: 7.56SacCubing II 2017: 7.13Berkeley Summer 2017: 6.26San Ramon Cubed 2017: 8.79Berkeley Fall 2017: 6.53Bay Area Speedcubin' 11 2018: 8.34CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 7.356.1518.9614 Jun 201415 Jun 2018

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.

  • Riley Woo — met in 153 rounds, finished ahead 71 times
  • Paul Mahvi — met in 142 rounds, finished ahead 71 times
  • Ryan Jew — met in 141 rounds, finished ahead 102 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.