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Dexter Tonks

3×3 · top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022TONK01

Dexter Tonks has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.87, set at Utah Megacomp 2023, puts him in the top 4.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,536th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since January 2022, he has put 170 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Dexter has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.87
signature single · Utah Megacomp 2023
170
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.8710.57
top 4.6%2,536 / 59,724
Skewb4.438.94
top 13.9%2,171 / 18,907
2×23.464.11
top 19.7%7,726 / 40,951
Pyraminx6.328.64
top 22.4%6,030 / 28,708
4×448.4850.29
top 22.7%3,446 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed26.8834.37
top 39.0%5,195 / 15,683
Square-125.6638.40
top 40.6%2,633 / 6,743
5×52:17.40
early days — 2 solves5,113 / 9,401
6×64:48.24
early days — 1 solve3,161 / 4,196

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

Utah Ice Cubing 2022: 9.34Utah Snowball Bash 2022: 10.79Idaho Freeze Dried 2023: 10.15Utah Megacomp 2023: 8.87Salt Lake Utah Summer 2023: 10.698.8710.7929 Jan 202219 May 2023

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.