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Calvin Brauer

3×3 · top 6.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015BRAU02

Calvin Brauer has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.47, set at Slow N Steady Summer 2018, puts him in the top 6.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,337th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since September 2015, he has put 446 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 53% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.40 in September 2015 to 9.47, a 70% improvement. Calvin has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.47
signature single · Slow N Steady Summer 2018
446
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 53% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.4712.42
top 6.0%3,337 / 59,724
2×22.384.00
top 7.8%3,062 / 40,951
Skewb3.815.37
top 9.6%1,474 / 18,907
Pyraminx4.8011.59
top 12.0%3,116 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed20.9425.34
top 23.1%2,964 / 15,683
4×452.921:04.43
top 28.3%4,378 / 19,072
Square-123.7633.01
top 36.3%2,363 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded2:19.61—
top 39.9%841 / 2,092

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

Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 31.40River Hill Fall 2015: 20.54Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 20.53Cube4Cam 2016: 14.64Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 15.40US Nationals 2016: 14.87Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 15.43Severna Park Fall 2016: 12.39TJHSST Fall 2016: 13.21Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 13.98NovaCube 2017: 10.97CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 13.27Maryland 2017: 11.00Skillcon 2017: 10.08First State 2018: 10.70CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 10.59Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 9.47George School Open 2019: 11.25River Hill Spring 2019: 10.90CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 12.29Slow N Steady Winter 2020: 12.109.4731.4026 Sep 201523 Feb 2020

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.47 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.