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Andrew Bae

3×3 one-handed · top 0.46% of 73,695 all-time · competing since June 2014 · 2014BAEA01

Andrew Bae has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.88, set at Empire State Summer B 2021, puts him in the top 0.46% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 68th in the United States. Until November 2014, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 35 competitions since June 2014, he has put 1,402 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 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. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.82 in June 2014 to 6.27, a 65% improvement. Andrew has entered 35 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.46% of 73,695 all-time
8.88
signature single · Empire State Summer B 2021
1,402
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed8.8812.66
top 0.46%68 / 15,683
3×36.278.21
top 0.66%438 / 59,724
4×428.3334.84
top 1.9%321 / 19,072
2×22.072.79
top 5.2%2,080 / 40,951
Skewb3.284.77
top 6.5%1,002 / 18,907
5×51:07.331:11.71
top 9.8%772 / 9,401
7×73:28.403:39.91
top 19.2%542 / 3,184
6×62:24.842:28.10
top 23.0%815 / 4,196
Clock11.0412.56
top 30.3%2,367 / 8,927

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

CCFC BLD Day 2014: 17.82Harvard Fall 2014: 19.20Lexington Fall 2015: 9.78MIT Fall 2015: 10.03Williams Winter 2016: 8.34Weston Spring 2016: 9.58MIT Spring 2016: 9.81Melrose Summer 2016: 8.99US Nationals 2016: 9.98Sharon Summer 2016: 8.90Princeton Fall 2016: 9.27UMass ODS Fall 2016: 9.31Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 7.90New York City Winter 2017: 8.49Hudson Valley Spring 2017: 8.28Sharon Summer 2017: 8.99Hudson Valley Fall 2017: 8.44Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 8.59WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 8.50Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 8.14Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 7.93Binghamton Winter 2019: 7.95Empire State Spring 2019: 7.50Colonie Spring 2019: 8.42Hudson Valley Summer 2019: 7.55CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 6.27Korean Championship 2019: 8.40Empire State Fall 2019: 8.25SBU Fall 2019: 7.64Liberty Science Center Open 2019: 7.59MIT Winter 2020: 8.18Babylon Winter 2020: 7.45Empire State Summer B 2021: 8.02Babylon Fall 2021: 7.99New York Championship 2022: 7.856.2719.2028 Jun 20142 Jul 2022

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 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.27 away.

Targets move as he improves.