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Brett Kaplan

2×2 · top 14.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015KAPL01

Brett Kaplan has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.00, set at Caltech Fall 2015, puts him in the top 14.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,587th in the United States. Across 8 competitions since August 2015, he has put 77 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 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.16 in August 2015 to 14.39, a 47% improvement. Brett has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 14.2% of 186,767 all-time
3.00
signature single · Caltech Fall 2015
77
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.005.89
top 14.2%5,587 / 40,951
3×314.3917.10
top 22.3%12,067 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed30.4240.28
top 47.6%6,484 / 15,683
Pyraminx11.4813.44
top 63.8%18,834 / 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

Nisei Week 2015: 27.16Irvine Fall 2015: 16.67Caltech Fall 2015: 19.01Caltech Winter 2016: 15.28Newport Spring 2016: 14.39St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 15.29SoCal Supercomp 2016: 14.99Nisei Week 2016: 15.3214.3927.1615 Aug 201520 Aug 2016

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.