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Cain Chitwood

2×2 · top 40.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016CHIT02

Cain Chitwood has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 5.08, set at No Stress Solving 2017, puts him in the top 40.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,199th in the United States. Across 7 competitions since July 2016, he has put 64 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:01.17 in October 2016 to 34.16, a 44% improvement. Cain has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 40.3% of 186,767 all-time
5.08
signature single · No Stress Solving 2017
64
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×25.089.48
top 40.3%16,199 / 40,951
Pyraminx12.2320.10
top 68.6%20,303 / 28,708
3×334.1639.82
top 69.3%41,838 / 59,724

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

Athens Fall Late Night 2016: 1:01.17Marietta Mystery 2016: 56.02All Aboard 2017: 41.28No Stress Solving 2017: 34.16GA Cubers Pride 2022: 36.06GA Cubers Turkey Gobblers 2022: 38.7534.161:01.178 Oct 201619 Nov 2022

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-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 86,891 people have one; it is 0.23 away.

Targets move as he improves.