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Cole Barton

3×3 · top 7.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022BART01

Cole Barton has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.84, set at Colorado Cubing Weekend 2022, puts him in the top 7.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,854th in the United States. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since January 2022, he has put 145 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.84 in January 2022 to 9.84, a 17% improvement. Cole has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.84
signature single · Colorado Cubing Weekend 2022
145
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.8411.62
top 7.0%3,854 / 59,724
4×452.5658.23
top 27.8%4,307 / 19,072
Megaminx1:35.441:48.31
top 31.7%2,240 / 7,841
5×51:41.871:52.66
top 36.8%2,923 / 9,401
3×3 blindfolded3:16.86
early days — 1 solve1,223 / 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

Scramble in the Springs 2022: 11.84DeNxNver 2022: 10.85Pikes Peak Good Morning 2022: 10.63Colorado Cubing Weekend 2022: 9.84Cubing for Charity Colorado 2022: 10.58Mile High Megacomp 2023: 10.09Unorthodox Blocks Colorado 2023: 11.15Oredigger Open 2024: 10.149.8411.848 Jan 202217 Feb 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 1.84 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 2.56 away.

Targets move as he improves.