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Alex Mattern

3×3 · top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017MATT01

Alex Mattern has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.93, set at TJHSST Fall 2018, puts him in the top 17.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,198th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since March 2017, he has put 85 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.30 in March 2017 to 12.93, a 42% improvement. Alex has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time
12.93
signature single · TJHSST Fall 2018
85
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.9316.39
top 17.2%9,198 / 59,724
Square-118.3833.02
top 24.3%1,606 / 6,743
Pyraminx6.947.96
top 27.4%7,512 / 28,708
2×24.114.57
top 27.9%11,015 / 40,951
Skewb6.439.42
top 29.1%4,777 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed23.4926.86
top 30.1%3,893 / 15,683
4×41:09.001:17.15
top 45.9%7,633 / 19,072

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

ODU Big Blue Spring 2017: 22.30Virginia Open Spring 2017: 19.44Severna Park Showdown 2017: 13.68TJHSST Fall 2018: 12.9312.9322.304 Mar 20173 Nov 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-15 Square-1 single — 4,160 people have one; it is 3.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.