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Dorothea Lotter

Pyraminx · top 61.3% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014LOTT01

Dorothea Lotter has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 11.11, set at Tuks Winter 2015, puts her in the top 61.3% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 506th in South Africa. Across 7 competitions since November 2014, she has put 56 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 4 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:37.53 in November 2014 to 1:22.22, a 16% improvement. Dorothea has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 61.3% of 129,321 all-time
11.11
signature single · Tuks Winter 2015
56
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
Pyraminx11.1123.59
top 61.3%506 / 946
Skewb27.1355.06
top 96.0%416 / 438
2×220.8335.90
top 96.1%1,423 / 1,510
3×31:22.221:33.57
top 97.1%2,072 / 2,164

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

Johannesburg 2014: 1:37.53Pops Toys Summer 2015: 1:32.41Tuks Open 2015: 1:29.88Pretoria Science Week 2015: 1:43.38Pops Winter 2015: 1:22.22Arnold Classic Africa 2018: 1:31.151:22.221:43.3823 Nov 201418 May 2018

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 23 Nov 2014First competition: Johannesburg 2014. A 1:37.53 3×3 single to start from.

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 Pyraminx single — 68,530 people have one; it is 1.11 away.
  • A sub-25 Skewb single — 69,485 people have one; it is 2.13 away.

Targets move as she improves.