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Drew Gottlieb

3×3 · top 21.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2012 · 2012GOTT01

Drew Gottlieb has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.14, set at Quabbin Summer 2019, puts him in the top 21.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,579th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since April 2012, he has put 63 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.80 in April 2012 to 14.14, a 45% improvement. Drew has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.5% of 284,439 all-time
14.14
signature single · Quabbin Summer 2019
63
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×314.1414.94
top 21.5%11,579 / 59,724
4×451.2857.17
top 26.3%4,046 / 19,072
Pyraminx8.0711.83
top 36.8%10,419 / 28,708
2×24.907.14
top 38.1%15,246 / 40,951
5×51:56.44
top 47.0%3,910 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed49.22
early days — 2 solves11,074 / 15,683

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

Yale Spring 2012: 25.80Yale Spring 2013: 23.19MIT Fall 2018: 16.33The Battle of Lexington 2018: 15.44Quabbin Summer 2019: 14.1414.1425.8029 Apr 201224 Aug 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.14 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 1.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.