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Alex VanderGriend

3×3 · top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2011 · 2011VAND01

Alex VanderGriend has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.28, set at Coastal Cubing 2013, puts him in the top 5.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,089th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since March 2011, he has put 572 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 65% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.50 in March 2011 to 9.28, a 50% improvement. Alex has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.28
signature single · Coastal Cubing 2013
572
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 65% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.2814.48
top 5.5%3,089 / 59,724
2×22.804.81
top 12.0%4,737 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed22.0730.02
top 26.3%3,388 / 15,683
4×455.321:04.32
top 31.1%4,912 / 19,072
5×51:42.301:58.93
top 37.1%2,962 / 9,401
Pyraminx8.4411.86
top 40.0%11,451 / 28,708
6×63:30.913:46.86
top 55.0%2,079 / 4,196
3×3 Fewest Moves42 moves—
top 55.5%1,178 / 2,040
7×75:44.855:47.51
top 63.9%1,926 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded6:08.88—
early days — 1 solve1,820 / 2,092
Clock33.81—
early days — 2 solves7,904 / 8,927

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

Big Cubes BC 2011: 18.50Vancouver Summer 2011: 19.09Vancouver Winter 2011: 13.93Lynden Open 2012: 15.40Couve Cubing 2012: 12.96Groovik's Cube Seattle 2012: 13.00United States National Championships 2012: 14.18Vancouver Open Summer 2012: 12.58Cube Kingdom 2013: 12.38Vancouver Open Winter 2013: 11.97Coastal Cubing 2013: 9.28World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 13.63Cube Kingdom II 2014: 11.61Vancouver Open Winter 2017: 13.78Puget Sound Winter 2017: 14.49Atomic Fools 2017: 14.549.2819.0919 Mar 20111 Apr 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 1.28 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.