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Dene Beardsley

Square-1 · top 8.3% of 25,272 all-time · competing since January 2009 · 2009BEAR01

Dene Beardsley has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the Square-1: a personal-best single of 11.15, set at Melbourne Summer Open 2011, puts him in the top 8.3% of the 25,272 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 31st in New Zealand. Until October 2009, no official Square-1 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 60 competitions since January 2009, he has put 2,160 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.84 in January 2009 to 11.30, a 29% improvement. Dene has entered 60 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Square-1
best event — top 8.3% of 25,272 all-time
11.15
signature single · Melbourne Summer Open 2011
2,160
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
Square-111.1521.20
top 8.3%31 / 251
3×311.3013.44
top 11.4%241 / 2,095
3×3 one-handed19.3124.37
top 18.7%113 / 600
5×51:20.431:25.34
top 19.4%84 / 355
4×445.9851.50
top 19.5%140 / 722
Pyraminx5.967.81
top 19.7%278 / 1,141
6×62:28.462:44.48
top 24.8%50 / 149
7×73:46.473:56.89
top 25.9%39 / 126
Megaminx1:44.051:55.41
top 37.1%129 / 283
3×3 blindfolded4:50.11—
early days — 1 solve75 / 86

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

San Francisco Open 2009: 15.84EPGY Stanford Winter 2009: 15.52UPenn Spring competition 2009: 14.52Ohio Open 2009: 13.86San Diego Science Festival 2009: 13.66Berkeley Spring competition 2009: 14.03Discovery Science Center competition 2009: 13.75San Diego Open 2009: 13.66New Zealand Championships 2009: 14.13Melbourne Summer Open 2010: 15.69Waikato Autumn Open 2010: 14.25Melbourne Winter Open 2010: 13.03New Zealand Championships 2010: 12.88Australian Nationals 2010: 12.55Waikato Spring Open 2010: 14.18Melbourne Cube Day 2010: 13.09Melbourne Summer Open 2011: 12.97Waikato Summer Open 2011: 13.25Auckland Autumn Open 2011: 14.15Auckland Winter Open 2011: 13.58Australian Nationals 2011: 12.63World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 12.56Melbourne Cube Day 2011: 12.19Melbourne Winter 2012: 13.22Australian Nationals 2012: 11.86Melbourne Cube Day 2012: 12.55Cupcake Cubing 2013: 15.61Shepparton Winter 2013: 14.21World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 13.44Australian Nationals 2013: 12.56Melbourne Spring 2013: 13.69Melbourne Cube Day 2013: 12.02Lifestyle Seasons Summer 2014: 13.33Canberra Summer 2014: 12.47Melbourne Summer 2014: 12.77Shepparton Autumn 2014: 11.30Wellington Autumn 2014: 12.06Melbourne Winter 2014: 12.33Lifestyle Seasons Winter 2014: 11.68Australian Nationals 2014: 13.16Melbourne Cube Day 2014: 13.09Sydney Spring 2014: 11.78Niddrie 2014: 13.36Lifestyle Seasons Summer 2015: 12.05Melbourne Autumn 2015: 13.46Cube for Cambodia 2015: 12.94Lifestyle Seasons Winter 2015: 14.22Brisbane Spring 2015: 13.40Australian Nationals 2015: 11.72Melbourne Cube Days 2015: 11.63Sydney Summer 2015: 11.65Perth Summer 2016: 12.39Cubing Classic 2016: 13.05Connor's Cube Day 2016: 11.69Cube for Cambodia 2016: 15.77Australian Nationals 2016: 13.31Great South Open 2016: 13.84Melbourne Cube Days 2016: 13.89China's 10th Anniversary Championship 2017: 13.37WCA World Championship 2019: 14.0911.3015.8418 Jan 200911 Jul 2019

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-10 Square-1 single — 1,533 people have one; it is 1.15 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.