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Austin Lai

3×3 · top 16.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019LAIA01

Austin Lai has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.84, set at Downtown Vancouver Winter 2020, puts him in the top 16.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,588th in Canada. Across 3 competitions since August 2019, he has put 43 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 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.37 in August 2019 to 12.84, an 11% improvement. Austin has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.9% of 284,439 all-time
12.84
signature single · Downtown Vancouver Winter 2020
43
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×312.8415.02
top 16.9%1,588 / 10,392
2×23.957.06
top 25.9%1,742 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed38.8050.93
top 63.6%1,536 / 2,620
Pyraminx18.8421.27
top 91.3%4,530 / 4,858

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

Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019: 14.37UBC Open 2020: 14.42Downtown Vancouver Winter 2020: 12.8412.8414.4223 Aug 20198 Feb 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.95 away.

Targets move as he improves.