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Ethan Dale

3×3 · top 24.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016DALE03

Ethan Dale has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.05, set at SNZ Southern 2019, puts him in the top 24.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 498th in New Zealand. Across 5 competitions since October 2016, he has put 188 official solves on the record across eleven 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. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.16 in October 2016 to 15.05, a 29% improvement. Ethan has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 24.6% of 284,439 all-time
15.05
signature single · SNZ Southern 2019
188
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 standingNew Zealand
3×315.0518.44
top 24.6%498 / 2,095
Skewb6.5127.64
top 29.8%225 / 666
4×41:07.781:15.55
top 44.7%297 / 722
5×52:00.602:20.52
top 49.6%168 / 355
2×26.468.30
top 55.6%943 / 1,615
3×3 one-handed39.9546.04
top 65.2%349 / 600
Square-141.481:14.12
top 67.2%186 / 251
6×65:02.185:22.06
early days — 3 solves129 / 149
Megaminx3:38.274:06.57
top 85.6%258 / 283
Pyraminx16.2922.19
top 85.9%1,026 / 1,141
7×78:03.358:17.34
early days — 3 solves115 / 126

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

Great South Open 2016: 21.16SNZ Southern 2017: 16.99Supreme South Open 2017: 16.68SNZ Southern 2018: 16.99SNZ Southern 2019: 15.0515.0521.1622 Oct 201630 Mar 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.05 away.
  • A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.