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Chris Braiedy

Square-1 · top 12.0% of 25,272 all-time · competing since October 2009 · 2009BRAI01

Chris Braiedy has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 13.03, set at Cubetcha 2012, puts him in the top 12.0% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 833rd in the United States. Across 27 competitions since October 2009, he has put 474 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.78 in October 2009 to 14.58, an 18% improvement. Chris has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 12.0% of 25,272 all-time
13.03
signature single · Cubetcha 2012
474
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Square-113.0319.30
top 12.0%833 / 6,743
3×314.5818.89
top 23.0%12,455 / 59,724
2×24.117.05
top 27.9%11,015 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed37.7746.42
top 62.0%8,745 / 15,683
4×41:38.471:56.83
top 69.6%12,455 / 19,072
Clock28.3632.73
top 82.3%7,300 / 8,927
Pyraminx17.2742.80
top 88.4%25,997 / 28,708
5×53:41.72
early days — 1 solve8,298 / 9,401
Megaminx5:17.16
early days — 2 solves7,727 / 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

Cubetcha 2009: 17.78Cubetcha 2010: 19.56Mall of America 2011: 19.28Minnesota Open 2011: 19.33United States National Championships 2011: 14.58Cubetcha 2011: 16.90MIT Spring 2012: 16.81Kansas Cube Off 2012: 16.05Minnesota Open 2012: 16.71Cubetcha 2012: 15.90Dixon Winter 2013: 22.36Winona Open 2013: 16.18Indiana 2013: 19.20US Nationals 2014: 18.10Minnesota Cube Melt 2015: 20.08Clock N' Stuff 2015: 17.28KCubing Spring 2016: 17.60Cubetcha 2016: 21.72Mega Minnesota Winter 2016: 19.0114.5822.3624 Oct 200910 Dec 2016

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-12 Square-1 single — 2,502 people have one; it is 1.03 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.