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Douglas Roth

2×2 · top 33.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2011 · 2011ROTH01

Douglas Roth has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 4.55, set at Captain's Cove competition 2012, puts him in the top 33.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,363rd in the United States. Across 10 competitions since May 2011, he has put 147 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 48.40 in May 2011 to 20.65, a 57% improvement. Douglas has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 33.6% of 186,767 all-time
4.55
signature single · Captain's Cove competition 2012
147
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×24.556.64
top 33.6%13,363 / 40,951
Pyraminx8.4019.54
top 39.7%11,340 / 28,708
3×320.6523.16
top 41.8%23,843 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed41.3149.89
top 67.2%9,582 / 15,683
4×41:57.53
top 80.6%14,953 / 19,072
Square-155.551:31.61
top 80.7%5,381 / 6,743
5×54:01.65
early days — 3 solves8,711 / 9,401

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

Captain's Cove competition 2011: 48.40Yale Fall 2011: 39.11Princeton Fall 2011: 35.06Harvard Fall 2011: 27.97Harvard Spring 2012: 20.65Captain's Cove competition 2012: 24.33St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 21.30Levittown Open 2012: 23.47Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 21.84Big Apple Spring 2016: 26.5620.6548.4028 May 201121 May 2016

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-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.