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Emma Ylagan

2×2 · top 25.1% of 189,179 all-time · competing since March 2015 · 2015YLAG01

Emma Ylagan has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.89, set at Maryland 2017, puts her in the top 25.1% of the 189,179 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 10,011th in the United States. Across 16 competitions since March 2015, she has put 141 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 54% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 43.68 in March 2015 to 26.35, a 40% improvement. Emma has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 25.1% of 189,179 all-time
3.89
signature single · Maryland 2017
141
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.899.06
top 25.1%10,011 / 41,674
3×326.3532.58
top 55.6%33,233 / 60,666
Pyraminx12.8516.50
top 72.2%21,705 / 29,168
Skewb18.2330.54
top 86.6%16,901 / 19,164
Megaminx4:08.84—
early days — 2 solves7,525 / 8,026

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

River Hill Winter 2015: 43.68Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 47.67Yale Spring 2015: 36.60Chesapeake Science Point Spring 2015: 46.93Slow n Steady Spring 2015: 45.54US Nationals 2015: 34.16Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 37.37River Hill Fall 2015: 35.92Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 32.72Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 34.97Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 32.15TJHSST Fall 2016: 31.59Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 34.05Severna Park Summer 2017: 26.35Maryland 2017: 27.42TJHSST Fall 2017: 28.1226.3547.677 Mar 201511 Nov 2017

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.89 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 single — 151,957 people have one; it is 1.35 away.

Targets move as she improves.