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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.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 5.25 | 7.38 | top 0.18% | 124 / 59,724 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 9.35 | 11.95 | top 0.67% | 104 / 15,683 | |
| 2×2 | 1.90 | 3.31 | top 4.1% | 1,623 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 32.11 | 40.24 | top 4.3% | 680 / 19,072 | |
| 5×5 | 1:44.86 | 2:00.12 | 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 13 Dec 2014Three personal bests in one day at Red Cross Cubing Open 2014.
- 8 Feb 2014Three personal bests in one day at River Hill Winter 2014.
- 12 Jan 2013Three personal bests in one day at Monmouth County Open 2013.
- 1 Dec 2012Three personal bests in one day at Levittown Open 2012.
- 22 Sep 2012First sub-10 3×3: 9.55 at Princeton Fall 2012.
- 18 Aug 2012Three personal bests in one day at St. Joseph's College Summer 2012.
Competitions
- UPenn Cube Day Fall 2017 · 22 Oct 2017
- World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017 · 13 Jul 2017
- CubingUSA Nationals 2017 · 7 Jul 2017
- Slow N Steady Fall 2016 · 24 Sep 2016
- US Nationals 2016 · 29 Jul 2016
- European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016 · 15 Jul 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Slow N Steady Spring 2016 · 18 Jun 2016
- Cube4Cam 2016 · 4 Jun 2016
- Cube For A Cure Spring 2016 · 29 May 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Manhasset Spring 2016 · 16 Apr 2016
- Virginia Open Spring 2016 · 2 Apr 2016
- Big Apple Cube Clash 2016 · 27 Feb 2016
- Princeton Winter 2016 · 6 Feb 2016
- Slow N Steady Winter 2016 · 30 Jan 2016
- Red Cross Cubing Open 2016 · 9 Jan 2016
- MIT Fall 2015 · 12 Dec 2015
- Manhasset Fall 2015 · 21 Nov 2015
- Virginia Open Fall 2015 · 14 Nov 2015
- China Championship 2015 · 2 Oct 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Slow n Steady Fall 2015 · 26 Sep 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Norwich Summer 2015 · 12 Sep 2015 — 2 personal bests set
- JRCA Kansai Summer 2015 · 25 Jul 2015
- Slow n Steady Spring 2015 · 6 Jun 2015
- Doylestown Spring 2015 · 25 Apr 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Yale Spring 2015 · 4 Apr 2015
- Johns Hopkins Winter 2015 · 28 Mar 2015
- River Hill Winter 2015 · 7 Mar 2015
- Red Cross Cubing Open 2014 · 13 Dec 2014 — 3 personal bests set
- Slow n Steady Fall 2014 · 9 Nov 2014
- Harvard Fall 2014 · 11 Oct 2014
- River Hill Summer 2014 · 6 Sep 2014 — 2 personal bests set
- Starlight Open 2014 · 9 Aug 2014
- US Nationals 2014 · 1 Aug 2014 — 1 personal best set
- Cornell Open Spring 2014 · 27 Apr 2014 — 2 personal bests set
- Princeton Winter 2014 · 15 Feb 2014
- River Hill Winter 2014 · 8 Feb 2014 — 3 personal bests set
- Starlight Open 2013 · 16 Nov 2013 — 1 personal best set
- Yale Fall 2013 · 26 Oct 2013 — 2 personal bests set
- World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013 · 26 Jul 2013 — 1 personal best set
- Yale Spring 2013 · 21 Apr 2013 — 2 personal bests set
- Princeton Spring 2013 · 30 Mar 2013
- Monmouth County Open 2013 · 12 Jan 2013 — 3 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2012 · 15 Dec 2012 — 2 personal bests set
- Levittown Open 2012 · 1 Dec 2012 — 3 personal bests set
- Princeton Fall 2012 · 22 Sep 2012 — 1 personal best set
- St. Joseph's College Summer 2012 · 18 Aug 2012 — 3 personal bests set
- Newark Head to Head 2012 · 25 Feb 2012 — 3 personal bests set
- River Hill Winter 2012 · 21 Jan 2012 — 2 personal bests set
- Bridgewater Open 2011 · 3 Dec 2011 — 3 personal bests set
- Princeton Fall 2011 · 24 Sep 2011 — 3 personal bests set
- Hackley Summer 2011 · 30 Jul 2011 — 2 personal bests set
- Newark Head to Head 2011 · 19 Mar 2011 — 1 personal best set
- Washington DC Winter 2011 · 19 Feb 2011 — 2 personal bests set
- St. Joseph's College Winter 2011 · 15 Jan 2011 — 1 personal best set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2010 · 18 Dec 2010
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.
- Dan Selzer — met in 218 rounds, finished ahead 178 times
- Corey Sakowski — met in 213 rounds, finished ahead 192 times
- Justin Mallari — met in 185 rounds, finished ahead 84 times
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.