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Brent Boswell

3×3 · top 10.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015BOSW01

Brent Boswell has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.84, set at CubingZA Cape Cubes Spring 2023, puts him in the top 10.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 110th in South Africa. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since April 2015, he has put 861 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 38.83 in April 2015 to 10.84, a 72% improvement. Brent has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.0% of 284,439 all-time
10.84
signature single · CubingZA Cape Cubes Spring 2023
861
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×310.8414.88
top 10.0%110 / 2,164
3×3 one-handed20.7325.54
top 22.5%61 / 467
2×23.886.37
top 24.9%267 / 1,510
4×458.931:03.23
top 35.3%118 / 491
Pyraminx8.1811.07
top 37.7%286 / 946
5×52:07.322:27.31
top 53.8%96 / 221
3×3 blindfolded3:32.15—
top 61.5%27 / 53
Skewb11.3716.33
top 62.8%248 / 438
Square-148.3553.71
top 74.6%94 / 118
Clock27.5132.62
top 81.1%120 / 148
Megaminx3:28.183:46.86
top 83.1%182 / 266
6×65:11.995:26.87
top 83.6%72 / 84
7×78:38.47—
early days — 3 solves64 / 69

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

Cape Town 2015: 38.83Cape Town Open 2015: 21.66Cape Town Open 2016: 18.63Cape Town 2016: 15.50Speedcubes Cape Town 2017: 14.85Speedcubes Cape Town 2018: 13.56Arnold Classic Africa 2018: 15.09Speedcubes Cape Town 2019: 15.22Cape Town Spring 2019: 16.71Cape Town Summer 2020: 11.31Durban Summer Warm-up 2021: 15.24Cape Town Summer 2022: 13.03Speedcubes Cape Town 2022: 12.25Rubik's WCA African Championship 2022: 12.83CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023: 14.35CubingZA Cape Cubes Autumn 2023: 15.18CubingZA Cape Cubes Spring 2023: 10.84Mid Summer Madness Cape Town 2024: 12.80Harvest Moon Cape Town 2024: 14.26Qualifying in Kirstenhof 2024: 12.29Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 14.3810.8438.8319 Apr 201521 Sep 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 one-handed single — 15,081 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.