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Amnon Melzer

2×2 · top 59.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014MELZ01

Amnon Melzer has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 6.88, set at Johannesburg 2016, puts him in the top 59.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 683rd in South Africa. Across 18 competitions since November 2014, he has put 252 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 8.02 in November 2014 to 6.88, a 14% improvement. Amnon has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 59.4% of 186,767 all-time
6.88
signature single · Johannesburg 2016
252
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
2×26.8810.97
top 59.4%683 / 1,510
3×334.0539.77
top 69.1%1,206 / 2,164

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

Johannesburg 2014: 8.02Cape Town 2014: 11.46Cape Town 2015: 9.94Johannesburg Open 2015: 10.84Cape Town Open 2015: 7.63Johannesburg Open 2016: 8.71Cape Town Open 2016: 11.94Johannesburg 2016: 6.88Cape Town 2016: 8.29Speedcubes Johannesburg 2017: 9.15Speedcubes Cape Town 2017: 8.80Speedcubes Cape Town 2018: 9.18Speedcubes Cape Town 2019: 11.84Cape Town Spring 2019: 10.22Cape Town Summer 2020: 10.88Speedcubes Cape Town 2022: 10.26CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023: 11.61CubingZA Cape Cubes Autumn 2023: 10.246.8811.9423 Nov 201422 Apr 2023

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 4.05 away.

Targets move as he improves.