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Alexander Lau

3×3 · top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2011 · 2011LAUA01

Alexander Lau has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.96, set at Cambridge Open 2013, puts him in the top 0.46% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 46th in the United Kingdom. Until June 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since November 2011, he has put 1,122 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.21 in November 2011 to 5.96, a 42% improvement. Alexander has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.46% of 284,439 all-time
5.96
signature single · Cambridge Open 2013
1,122
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×35.967.37
top 0.46%46 / 6,689
2×21.232.56
top 1.1%91 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed10.4114.50
top 1.3%27 / 1,851
3×3 Fewest Moves26 moves32.33
top 6.2%33 / 372
3×3 blindfolded53.54—
top 11.1%58 / 311
4×441.4249.44
top 13.8%322 / 2,071
Square-118.2533.61
top 24.0%226 / 778
5×51:47.642:01.95
top 40.9%509 / 1,151
3×3 Multi-Blind4 of 5 cubes · 30:03—
top 57.5%92 / 126
4×4 blindfolded10:26.00—
early days — 2 solves65 / 84
Skewb13.9730.63
top 74.6%1,824 / 2,421
7×76:53.648:06.59
top 79.1%384 / 459
6×65:17.21—
early days — 2 solves492 / 548
Megaminx3:44.93—
top 87.1%917 / 966

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

UK Open 2011: 10.21Rapid Dash Open 2012: 8.83UK Open 2012: 7.58Edinburgh Open 2013: 7.09Leicester Open 2013: 6.85Cambridge Open 2013: 5.96Guildford Open 2013: 6.57Cuthberts Open 2013: 6.58Nottingham Open 2014: 6.83Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 7.07Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 6.82ABHC 2014: 6.79Cuthberts Open 2014: 6.98UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 7.55Harrow Spring 2015: 6.47Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 6.57August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 6.86Cuthberts Open 2015: 6.70UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 7.15Macclesfield Open 2016: 6.73UK Championship 2016: 7.07World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 7.80UK Championship 2017: 6.44WCA European Championship 2018: 6.45UK Championship 2018: 6.965.9610.2112 Nov 201126 Oct 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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.96 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.