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Ara Stilwell

3×3 · top 11.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2014 · 2014STIL02

Ara Stilwell has been competing for 12 years. Their best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.30, set at Algs in Ankeny 2024, puts them in the top 11.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,171st in the United States. Across 3 competitions since June 2014, they have put 58 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, their 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. Their 3×3 best has come down from 21.91 in June 2014 to 11.30, a 48% improvement. Ara has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 11.4% of 284,439 all-time
11.30
signature single · Algs in Ankeny 2024
58
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×311.3012.90
top 11.4%6,171 / 59,724
Skewb7.8011.43
top 39.8%6,849 / 18,907
Pyraminx9.1611.11
top 46.2%13,285 / 28,708
4×41:10.491:25.07
top 47.4%7,886 / 19,072
2×28.9614.00
top 73.3%30,300 / 40,951

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

Iowa Corn Lovers 2014: 21.91Trujillo Happy New Year 2020: 16.11Algs in Ankeny 2024: 11.3011.3021.917 Jun 20149 Mar 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 their.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.30 away.
  • A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 1.80 away.

Targets move as they improves.