People · United States
Amy Tai
3×3 · top 35.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2010 · 2010TAIA01
Amy Tai has been competing for 16 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 18.43, set at MIT Spring 2012, puts her in the top 35.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 19,834th in the United States. Across 15 competitions since July 2010, she has put 98 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 22.90 in July 2010 to 18.43, a 20% improvement. Amy has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 18.43 | 21.60 | top 35.4% | 19,834 / 59,724 | |
| 2×2 | 7.59 | 13.97 | top 65.0% | 26,782 / 40,951 | |
| 5×5 | 3:25.61 | — | top 85.4% | 7,915 / 9,401 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 10 Sep 2011First sub-20 3×3: 19.36 at Yale Fall 2011.
- 11 Jul 2010First competition: Berkeley Summer 2010. A 22.90 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Princeton Winter 2014 · 15 Feb 2014
- Liberty Science Center Open 2013 · 14 Dec 2013
- World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013 · 26 Jul 2013
- Harvard Spring 2013 · 2 Feb 2013
- Harvard Fall 2012 · 6 Oct 2012
- United States National Championships 2012 · 3 Aug 2012
- Harvard Spring 2012 · 7 Apr 2012
- MIT Spring 2012 · 18 Feb 2012 — 1 personal best set
- Harvard Fall 2011 · 22 Oct 2011 — 1 personal best set
- Yale Fall 2011 · 10 Sep 2011 — 1 personal best set
- Harvard Spring 2011 · 2 Apr 2011
- Brown Cubing Day 2011 · 5 Feb 2011 — 1 personal best set
- MIT Fall 2010 · 13 Nov 2010 — 1 personal best set
- Harvard Fall 2010 · 2 Oct 2010 — 1 personal best set
- Berkeley Summer 2010 · 11 Jul 2010
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.
- James Donahue — met in 18 rounds, finished ahead once
- Bob Burton — met in 18 rounds, never finished ahead
- Rowe Hessler — met in 18 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 3.43 away.
- A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 1.59 away.
Targets move as she improves.