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Arden LaFave

3×3 · top 29.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018LAFA01

Arden LaFave has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.46, set at Minnesota Qualifier 2019, puts him in the top 29.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,076th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since May 2018, he has put 66 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.29 in May 2018 to 16.46, a 53% improvement. Arden has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 29.3% of 284,439 all-time
16.46
signature single · Minnesota Qualifier 2019
66
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.4619.03
top 29.3%16,076 / 59,724
2×25.777.75
top 48.4%19,642 / 40,951
Pyraminx12.3619.35
top 69.4%20,554 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed55.481:03.44
top 81.1%12,045 / 15,683

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

Clock N' Cats 2018: 35.29North Star Cubing Challenge 2019: 21.54Minnesota Qualifier 2019: 16.46Copper Country Cubing Fall 2019: 17.02North Star Cubing Challenge 2020: 16.5116.4635.2926 May 201818 Jan 2020

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.46 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.