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Aron Puddy-Mathew

3×3 blindfolded · top 5.7% of 12,178 all-time · competing since September 2010 · 2010PUDD01

Aron Puddy-Mathew has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3 blindfolded: a personal-best single of 35.59, set at Melbourne Cube Day 2011, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 12,178 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29th in Australia. Until February 2010, no official 3×3 blindfolded solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since September 2010, he has put 234 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Aron has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 blindfolded
best event — top 5.7% of 12,178 all-time
35.59
signature single · Melbourne Cube Day 2011
234
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×3 blindfolded35.59
top 5.7%29 / 394
3×310.0913.17
top 7.7%709 / 11,709
2×23.135.72
top 15.8%1,206 / 8,567
3×3 Multi-Blind12 of 18 cubes · 52:33
early days — 3 solves61 / 180
3×3 one-handed25.8329.61
top 36.4%831 / 2,659
4×41:00.031:19.67
top 36.5%966 / 3,051
Clock12.5513.85
top 37.6%392 / 1,095
Pyraminx9.2118.75
top 46.7%2,606 / 5,993
5×52:10.002:18.23
top 55.4%768 / 1,356

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

Australian Nationals 2010: 10.81Melbourne Summer Open 2011: 13.63Australian Nationals 2011: 12.78Melbourne Cube Day 2011: 10.09Northpark Adelaide 2014: 16.5310.0916.534 Sep 201012 Apr 2014

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.

  • Feliks Zemdegs — met in 60 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Tim Major — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead 14 times
  • Zane Carney — met in 44 rounds, finished ahead 10 times

Next targets

  • A sub-30 3×3 blindfolded single — 501 people have one; it is 5.59 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.