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Ash Messner

3×3 · top 33.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2018 · 2018MESS07

Ash Messner has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.75, set at Trojan Spring 2024, puts him in the top 33.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18,500th in the United States. Across 8 competitions since November 2018, he has put 92 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 56.59 in November 2018 to 17.75, a 69% improvement. Ash has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 33.3% of 284,439 all-time
17.75
signature single · Trojan Spring 2024
92
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×317.7520.72
top 33.3%18,500 / 59,724
Pyraminx8.7612.32
top 42.8%12,251 / 28,708
2×27.539.66
top 64.5%26,585 / 40,951
4×41:47.00
early days — 2 solves13,661 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed1:05.79
top 87.1%13,205 / 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

Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2018: 56.59Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2019: 38.83Michigan Cubing Club Beta 2019: 34.73Michigan 2019: 30.76Michigan Cubing Club Gamma 2019: 28.67Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2019: 20.16Washtenaw Spring 2024: 18.79Trojan Spring 2024: 17.7517.7556.5910 Nov 20184 May 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.75 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.