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Alison Meador

3×3 · top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017MEAD01

Alison Meador has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.03, set at CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023, puts her in the top 2.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,634th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 43 competitions since March 2017, she has put 1,837 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 13.37 in March 2017 to 8.03, a 40% improvement. Alison has entered 43 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.03
signature single · CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023
1,837
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.039.10
top 2.8%1,634 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed12.5417.76
top 3.7%551 / 15,683
Skewb3.496.63
top 7.7%1,194 / 18,907
4×437.7945.18
top 9.6%1,427 / 19,072
2×22.593.84
top 9.8%3,865 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.195.96
top 14.4%3,762 / 28,708
Square-115.1020.69
top 16.7%1,132 / 6,743
5×51:17.581:23.56
top 17.2%1,339 / 9,401
Clock9.6112.24
top 23.1%1,778 / 8,927
6×62:33.782:41.62
top 27.5%974 / 4,196
Megaminx1:31.111:52.15
top 28.9%2,013 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves39.67
top 33.6%738 / 2,040
7×74:29.374:43.46
top 40.9%1,162 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded4:19.23—
top 72.3%1,497 / 2,092

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

Bluegrass Spring 2017: 13.37Queen City 2017: 12.06Rocky Top 2017: 10.75Cardinal Bird Fiesta 2018: 11.43Music City Speedsolving 2018: 10.59Rocky Top 2018: 10.80Florence Winter 2019: 10.33Derby City Open 2019: 8.65Cubing For Kyle 2019: 10.42CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2019: 8.36Rocky Top 2019: 9.30No Shoes Kentucky 2019: 10.42Small Cheese 2019: 9.22Bulldog Winter 2.0 2022: 9.38Country Roads Huntington 2022: 9.78Bluegrass Spring 2022: 9.47CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2022: 8.97CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2022: 9.11Cubing in the Ville 2022: 8.67Bluegrass Fall 2022: 8.61Rocky Top 2022: 9.38FMC in a Gem City Temple 2023: 8.83Bluegrass Bash 2023: 8.85The Legacy Begins 2023: 8.57Country Roads Huntington 2023: 8.58The Blantucky Derby 2023: 8.72Kentucky Horse Park 2023: 9.70MoreHead-to-Head 2023: 8.71Big E Slice 2023: 8.61Central KY Nats Warm-Up 2023: 8.56CubingUSA Nationals 2023: 9.28Flex in Lex 2023: 9.29Going Fast in Franklin 2023: 9.88Music City Speedsolving Fall 2023: 9.45Somerset September 2023: 8.75CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2023: 8.03Back To The Ville 2023: 8.07Moonbow Mega Kentucky 2024: 8.85Country Roads Huntington 2024: 11.16CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship 2024: 10.348.0313.374 Mar 20174 Oct 2024

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.03 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.54 away.

Targets move as she improves.