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Dale Waine

3×3 · top 5.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2019 · 2019WAIN02

Dale Waine has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.16, set at Melbourne Cube Days 2022, puts him in the top 5.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 489th in Australia. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since November 2019, he has put 194 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 5.87 in November 2019 to 2.26, a 61% improvement. Dale has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.2% of 284,439 all-time
9.16
signature single · Melbourne Cube Days 2022
194
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×39.1611.96
top 5.2%489 / 11,709
2×22.263.33
top 6.7%508 / 8,567
Pyraminx6.217.99
top 21.6%1,082 / 5,993
4×448.291:03.99
top 22.5%564 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed34.3540.53
top 56.1%1,318 / 2,659
Megaminx2:32.74
early days — 2 solves800 / 1,277
3×3 blindfolded3:43.15
early days — 2 solves284 / 394
5×52:32.70
early days — 3 solves942 / 1,356

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

Melbourne Cube Days 2019: 5.87December Series: Geelong says So-Long 2021: 2.26Melbourne Mini Saturday 2022: 3.50Wonderful Williamstown 2022: 2.56Melbourne Trilogy Saturday 2022: 2.83Koalafication Melbourne 2022: 3.02Melbourne Cube Days 2022: 2.67Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 2.78Melbourne Summer 2023: 2.412.265.8730 Nov 201920 Jan 2023

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.16 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.26 away.

Targets move as he improves.