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Austin Montiel

3×3 · top 32.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2009 · 2009MONT04

Austin Montiel has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.47, set at Williams Winter 2014, puts him in the top 32.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17,998th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since November 2009, he has put 67 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 50.30 in November 2009 to 17.47, a 65% improvement. Austin has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 32.5% of 284,439 all-time
17.47
signature single · Williams Winter 2014
67
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×317.4725.02
top 32.5%17,998 / 59,724
2×26.066.82
top 51.5%21,001 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed33.3040.05
top 54.0%7,488 / 15,683
Pyraminx15.8019.10
top 84.5%24,930 / 28,708

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

MIT Fall 2009: 50.30Brown Cubing Day 2009: 42.22MIT Spring 2010: 26.09Harvard Fall 2010: 22.22Williams Winter 2014: 17.4717.4750.3014 Nov 20091 Mar 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.47 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.