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Ariel Rivel

Pyraminx · top 31.8% of 129,321 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017RIVE08

Ariel Rivel has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 7.48, set at Quabbin Spring 2017, puts him in the top 31.8% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,895th in the United States. Across 8 competitions since April 2017, he has put 101 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Ariel has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 31.8% of 129,321 all-time
7.48
signature single · Quabbin Spring 2017
101
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx7.4810.67
top 31.8%8,895 / 28,708
2×25.889.86
top 49.6%20,166 / 40,951
3×328.6233.54
top 60.1%35,724 / 59,724
Skewb14.9420.62
top 78.1%14,918 / 18,907

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

Weston Spring 2017: 29.83Quabbin Spring 2017: 34.40WPI Fall Cube Fest 2017: 32.88Cubing with the Viking 2017: 38.49Kew Forest Open 2018: 37.62Liberty Science Center Open 2018: 28.62Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 31.59Ridge Cubing 2019: 32.1628.6238.491 Apr 20176 Apr 2019

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-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.48 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.