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Charlie Heffernan

3×3 · top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2015 · 2015HEFF01

Charlie Heffernan has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.36, set at Anaheim Fall 2018, puts him in the top 8.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,692nd in the United States. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since June 2015, he has put 312 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 37.99 in June 2015 to 10.36, a 73% improvement. Charlie has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.36
signature single · Anaheim Fall 2018
312
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.3612.36
top 8.5%4,692 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.385.83
top 9.6%2,484 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed17.8227.09
top 14.6%1,900 / 15,683
2×23.384.13
top 18.7%7,342 / 40,951
4×446.311:00.50
top 19.9%3,024 / 19,072
Skewb5.637.22
top 22.9%3,670 / 18,907
Megaminx1:36.991:51.44
top 32.7%2,307 / 7,841

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

SoCal Supercomp 2015: 37.99Nisei Week 2015: 35.79Caltech Winter 2016: 28.42Newport Spring 2016: 24.79Caltech Winter 2017: 22.17Qualifornia 2017: 24.10Thanks Four The Invite 2018: 19.02Las Vegas Spring 2018: 11.11Nipomo Spring 2018: 13.57CubingUSA Western Championship 2018: 12.88CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 13.57Nisei Week 2018: 12.99Anaheim Fall 2018: 10.36Poly Cubed 2018: 11.24Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 11.87Mudd Winter 2019: 12.67Bobcat Battle 2019: 10.9510.3637.9927 Jun 201516 Nov 2019

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.