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Couper Kerns

2×2 · top 17.3% of 186,767 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017KERN02

Couper Kerns has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.26, set at Tea Time Spring 2018, puts him in the top 17.3% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,774th in the United States. Across 7 competitions since October 2017, he has put 160 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.83 in October 2017 to 14.99, a 31% improvement. Couper has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 17.3% of 186,767 all-time
3.26
signature single · Tea Time Spring 2018
160
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.264.80
top 17.3%6,774 / 40,951
3×314.9919.34
top 24.4%13,246 / 59,724
4×41:04.091:17.27
top 40.8%6,651 / 19,072
Square-125.7542.01
top 40.8%2,645 / 6,743
Skewb8.4710.77
top 44.8%7,891 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed32.5139.20
top 52.3%7,221 / 15,683
Pyraminx10.3612.55
top 55.8%16,318 / 28,708

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

Maryland 2017: 21.83Severna Park Showdown 2017: 16.90Northern Neck Winter 2018: 19.25Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 20.28NovaCube 2018: 18.54Tea Time Spring 2018: 17.04TJHSST Fall 2018: 14.9914.9921.837 Oct 20173 Nov 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.99 away.

Targets move as he improves.