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Charlie Vater

Pyraminx · top 3.0% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2021 · 2021VATE01

Charlie Vater has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.81, set at Don't Pop Princeton 2024, puts him in the top 3.0% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 810th in the United States. Until October 2010, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since November 2021, he has put 639 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.80 in November 2021 to 8.53, a 49% improvement. Charlie has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.0% of 129,321 all-time
2.81
signature single · Don't Pop Princeton 2024
639
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx2.815.90
top 3.0%810 / 28,708
2×21.763.16
top 3.4%1,316 / 40,951
3×38.5311.35
top 3.8%2,134 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed19.2124.94
top 18.4%2,367 / 15,683
Clock9.5613.11
top 22.9%1,758 / 8,927
Skewb5.758.03
top 23.8%3,854 / 18,907
4×450.4356.10
top 25.2%3,869 / 19,072
Square-122.0736.64
top 32.6%2,114 / 6,743
3×3 blindfolded2:21.27—
top 40.5%855 / 2,092
5×51:47.452:01.84
top 40.8%3,300 / 9,401
Megaminx2:12.902:28.53
top 52.7%3,938 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves—
early days — 2 solves1,251 / 2,040
6×64:51.18—
top 79.8%3,190 / 4,196
7×77:39.60—
early days — 1 solve2,732 / 3,184
4×4 blindfolded25:41.00—
early days — 1 solve420 / 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

Babylon Fall 2021: 16.80St. Joseph's Prep 2022: 13.69Mum's the Word 2023: 14.94Penn Cube Day Spring 2023: 16.14NJIT Spring 2023: 15.56GCU Spring 2023: 14.04North Jersey Speedsolving A 2023: 11.66CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 11.29Jay House of Cubes 2023: 11.53Princeton Fall 2023: 11.98Manhattan Mini C 2023: 11.83Connecticut Winter 2024: 11.40GCU Winter 2024: 10.30Parsippany Mini PM 2024: 11.54NYU Winter 2024: 8.53Cubes on the Bayside Spring 2024: 12.11Ridgefield Spring 2024: 9.78Great Peconic Bay Spring 2024: 11.38Spring into Summit 2024: 9.94Cubing in the Ocean County 2024: 11.72Cubing-on-Hudson AM 2024: 12.20Flushing Open PM 2024: 12.368.5316.8014 Nov 202124 Nov 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-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.