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Alexander Crush

3×3 · top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018CRUS01

Alexander Crush has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.11, set at South Australian Open 2023, puts him in the top 5.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 478th in Australia. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since January 2018, he has put 727 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.64 in January 2018 to 9.11, a 33% improvement. Alexander has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.11
signature single · South Australian Open 2023
727
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×39.1111.16
top 5.1%478 / 11,709
4×433.8941.42
top 5.7%150 / 3,051
5×51:05.101:17.30
top 8.5%116 / 1,356
Skewb3.837.72
top 9.8%256 / 3,534
Pyraminx5.048.48
top 13.4%635 / 5,993
2×22.954.30
top 13.7%1,050 / 8,567
Megaminx1:13.231:23.05
top 17.6%209 / 1,277
3×3 one-handed19.5025.81
top 19.2%432 / 2,659
Clock10.5715.70
top 27.9%292 / 1,095
6×62:48.692:54.79
top 35.4%218 / 641
Square-125.8439.77
top 41.0%394 / 899
3×3 blindfolded3:30.27—
top 61.0%270 / 394

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

Adelaide Summer 2018: 13.64Adelaide Winter 2018: 10.68Adelaide Summer 2019: 11.83Koalafication Adelaide 2019: 10.44Adelaide Summer 2020: 10.72Adelaide Twin Saturday 2021: 9.79Adelaide Summer 2022: 10.36Adelaide Autumn 2022: 10.60South Australian Open 2022: 10.14Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 9.26Adelaide Summer 2023: 10.12Adelaide Autumn 2023: 10.97Adelaide Winter Saturday 2023: 10.04South Australian Open 2023: 9.11Australian Nationals 2023: 10.47Playford Cubing 2023: 10.62Mildura Madness 2023: 9.389.1113.6413 Jan 20182 Dec 2023

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 1.11 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 3.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.