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Ethan Vellu

3×3 · top 12.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015VELL02

Ethan Vellu has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.48, set at Melbourne Cube Days 2017, puts him in the top 12.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,066th in Australia. Across 11 competitions since August 2015, he has put 385 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.80 in August 2015 to 11.48, a 56% improvement. Ethan has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 12.1% of 284,439 all-time
11.48
signature single · Melbourne Cube Days 2017
385
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×311.4813.41
top 12.1%1,066 / 11,709
2×22.823.80
top 12.2%924 / 8,567
Skewb4.509.69
top 14.5%380 / 3,534
4×446.3256.82
top 20.0%486 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed22.7828.69
top 28.2%634 / 2,659
Pyraminx9.0012.36
top 44.8%2,476 / 5,993
5×52:05.662:08.62
top 52.8%717 / 1,356
Megaminx2:32.69
top 62.4%799 / 1,277

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

Lifestyle Seasons Winter 2015: 25.80Australian Nationals 2015: 17.02Melbourne Cube Days 2015: 16.30Cubing Classic 2016: 16.61Melbourne Autumn 2016: 15.02Connor's Cube Day 2016: 14.36Cube for Cambodia 2016: 13.00Australian Nationals 2016: 14.53Australian Nationals 2017: 11.67Melbourne Cube Days 2017: 11.48Melbourne Summer 2019: 13.0511.4825.801 Aug 201526 Jan 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.48 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.