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Collin Burns

3×3 · top 0.18% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2010 · 2010BURN01

Collin Burns has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 5.25, set at Doylestown Spring 2015, puts him in the top 0.18% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 124th in the United States. Until April 2015, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 55 competitions since December 2010, he has put 1,797 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.94 in December 2010 to 5.25, an 80% improvement. Collin has entered 55 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.18% of 284,439 all-time
5.25
signature single · Doylestown Spring 2015
1,797
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×35.257.38
top 0.18%124 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed9.3511.95
top 0.67%104 / 15,683
2×21.903.31
top 4.1%1,623 / 40,951
4×432.1140.24
top 4.3%680 / 19,072
5×51:44.862:00.12
top 39.1%3,136 / 9,401

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

Liberty Science Center Open 2010: 25.94St. Joseph's College Winter 2011: 29.25Washington DC Winter 2011: 19.56Newark Head to Head 2011: 17.71Hackley Summer 2011: 14.18Princeton Fall 2011: 11.93Bridgewater Open 2011: 11.96River Hill Winter 2012: 11.44Newark Head to Head 2012: 10.18St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 10.27Princeton Fall 2012: 9.55Levittown Open 2012: 9.41Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 10.02Monmouth County Open 2013: 8.16Princeton Spring 2013: 8.93Yale Spring 2013: 9.27World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 8.14Yale Fall 2013: 8.59Starlight Open 2013: 7.88River Hill Winter 2014: 8.27Princeton Winter 2014: 8.18Cornell Open Spring 2014: 7.57US Nationals 2014: 7.64Starlight Open 2014: 8.03River Hill Summer 2014: 6.72Harvard Fall 2014: 7.91Slow n Steady Fall 2014: 7.67Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 5.93River Hill Winter 2015: 7.23Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 7.37Yale Spring 2015: 7.31Doylestown Spring 2015: 5.25Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 7.64JRCA Kansai Summer 2015: 6.72Norwich Summer 2015: 7.62Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 7.04China Championship 2015: 6.89Virginia Open Fall 2015: 6.49Manhasset Fall 2015: 6.61MIT Fall 2015: 7.29Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 6.46Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 5.38Princeton Winter 2016: 6.85Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 6.42Virginia Open Spring 2016: 6.83Manhasset Spring 2016: 6.29Cube For A Cure Spring 2016: 6.33Cube4Cam 2016: 6.62Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 6.36European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 6.24US Nationals 2016: 6.43Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 7.26CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 7.08World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 6.88UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017: 6.375.2529.2518 Dec 201022 Oct 2017

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-5 3×3 single — 344 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.