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Cole Erwin

3×3 · top 10.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018ERWI01

Cole Erwin has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.15, set at Mishawaka Summer 2019, puts him in the top 10.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,923rd in the United States. Across 9 competitions since April 2018, he has put 184 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.52 in April 2018 to 11.15, a 36% improvement. Cole has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 10.9% of 284,439 all-time
11.15
signature single · Mishawaka Summer 2019
184
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×311.1514.20
top 10.9%5,923 / 59,724
4×443.0851.25
top 15.9%2,407 / 19,072
2×23.154.77
top 16.0%6,261 / 40,951
5×51:26.871:37.27
top 24.8%1,931 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed23.1727.07
top 29.2%3,781 / 15,683
6×62:52.763:09.18
top 37.4%1,357 / 4,196
Skewb14.8127.27
top 77.7%14,809 / 18,907
Pyraminx14.4120.01
top 79.6%23,567 / 28,708
Clock1:51.01
early days — 2 solves8,942 / 8,927

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

Dixon Spring 2018: 17.52Michigan Cubing Club Gamma 2018: 17.96Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2018: 13.60Blue Water Winter 2019: 12.69Indianapolis Cubes 2019: 11.72Cubing Peoria 2019: 13.01Mishawaka Summer 2019: 11.15Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2019: 11.6411.1517.9621 Apr 201816 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 1.15 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 3.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.