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Callum Cottrell

3×3 · top 47.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2009 · 2009COTT01

Callum Cottrell has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 22.78, set at Atlantic Open 2017, puts him in the top 47.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,851st in Canada. Across 5 competitions since June 2009, he has put 56 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.61 in June 2009 to 22.78, a 20% improvement. Callum has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 47.4% of 284,439 all-time
22.78
signature single · Atlantic Open 2017
56
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×322.7826.96
top 47.4%4,851 / 10,392
2×28.3416.90
top 69.9%5,123 / 7,173
5×53:10.88
top 81.5%1,124 / 1,499
7×712:41.00
early days — 1 solve498 / 503
Megaminx8:43.18
early days — 2 solves1,377 / 1,375

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

Toronto Open Summer 2009: 28.61Canadian Open 2009: 28.94Toronto Open Winter 2010: 23.27Toronto Open Spring 2010: 28.77Atlantic Open 2017: 22.7822.7828.9427 Jun 20094 Mar 2017

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 2.78 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.