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Connor Gray

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014GRAY01

Connor Gray has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.63, set at CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,262nd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since August 2014, he has put 705 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 61% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.76 in August 2014 to 8.63, a 51% improvement. Connor has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.63
signature single · CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018
705
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 61% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.6311.86
top 4.0%2,262 / 59,724
2×22.043.73
top 5.0%2,003 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed13.7624.88
top 5.7%790 / 15,683
4×444.2948.88
top 17.4%2,644 / 19,072
5×51:22.261:31.65
top 20.9%1,624 / 9,401
Square-118.0936.67
top 23.6%1,558 / 6,743
Pyraminx7.8312.38
top 34.8%9,834 / 28,708
Skewb7.6610.42
top 38.7%6,651 / 18,907
6×63:35.923:47.19
top 57.1%2,175 / 4,196
7×75:42.126:13.82
early days — 3 solves1,892 / 3,184
3×3 blindfolded4:20.83—
top 72.6%1,507 / 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

US Nationals 2014: 17.76GCC Fall 2014: 17.92Harvard Fall 2014: 19.21Lexington Fall 2014: 18.95MIT Fall 2014: 18.92Yale Spring 2015: 16.42MIT Spring 2015: 16.78Norwich Summer 2015: 16.68Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 14.36Williams Winter 2016: 12.44Melrose Winter 2016: 12.15Weston Spring 2016: 11.51MIT Spring 2016: 11.47Northeastern Spring 2016: 12.70Melrose Summer 2016: 13.69US Nationals 2016: 14.72Sharon Summer 2016: 12.71Quabbin Open 2016: 12.67CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 13.42Sharon Summer 2017: 10.15Cubing with the Viking 2017: 9.88Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 9.88WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 10.79CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 8.63Quizzical Quabbin Qualifier 2018: 9.39Connect Community 2018: 11.998.6319.211 Aug 20148 Sep 2018

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.

  • Tim Reynolds — met in 105 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
  • Sam Schultz — met in 104 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
  • Alex Cohen — met in 92 rounds, finished ahead 57 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.