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Chad Batten

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time · competing since February 2009 · 2009BATT01

Chad Batten has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 18 moves, set at GA Cubers Mountain Trip 2018, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in the United States. Across 24 competitions since February 2009, he has put 581 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.56 in February 2009 to 9.54, a 70% improvement. Chad has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time
18 moves
signature single · GA Cubers Mountain Trip 2018
581
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves18 moves27.67
top 0.17%5 / 2,040
3×39.5411.74
top 6.2%3,426 / 59,724
2×23.195.09
top 16.5%6,475 / 40,951
4×444.6051.36
top 17.8%2,704 / 19,072
Pyraminx6.3110.15
top 22.3%6,001 / 28,708
3×3 blindfolded1:37.53—
top 25.7%534 / 2,092
5×51:29.511:42.14
top 26.8%2,094 / 9,401
Megaminx1:28.411:36.77
top 27.2%1,876 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed23.7228.46
top 30.7%3,972 / 15,683
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 34:30—
top 43.9%335 / 731
Clock17.6022.55
top 57.5%4,791 / 8,927
6×63:44.223:58.19
top 60.2%2,307 / 4,196
Skewb11.1918.92
top 61.8%11,411 / 18,907
7×75:42.885:48.40
early days — 3 solves1,904 / 3,184
4×4 blindfolded21:52.00—
early days — 1 solve401 / 440

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

Newark Winter 2009: 31.56United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 21.40Charlotte Open Fall 2014: 14.15Virginia Open Spring 2015: 13.68US Nationals 2015: 13.72ODU Big Blue Open 2015: 13.23Virginia Open Spring 2016: 11.51Duke Summer 2016: 12.21Discovery Place 2016: 13.03ODU Big Blue Winter 2016: 10.47Crossroads Cubing 2017: 11.50Unionville Open Spring 2017: 11.58CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 10.86Raleigh Rubik's Rally 2017: 9.54CubingUSA Southeast Championship 2018: 10.75Wolfpack Quiet Qualifier 2018: 12.18Crossroads Cubing 2018: 10.63Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2018: 10.95Wolfpack Winter 2019: 10.51Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2019: 11.45Bull City Summer NC 2024: 10.579.5431.567 Feb 20097 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.54 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.