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Gabriel Coates

3×3 · top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018COAT01

Gabriel Coates has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.26, set at Flag City Spring 2019, puts him in the top 3.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,846th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since June 2018, he has put 409 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.24 in June 2018 to 8.26, a 52% improvement. Gabriel has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.3% of 284,439 all-time
8.26
signature single · Flag City Spring 2019
409
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 75% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.269.83
top 3.3%1,846 / 59,724
Pyraminx2.933.93
top 3.4%895 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed12.8916.31
top 4.2%623 / 15,683
2×21.962.59
top 4.5%1,791 / 40,951
Skewb3.765.07
top 9.3%1,429 / 18,907
4×441.8743.99
top 14.3%2,139 / 19,072
Megaminx1:21.041:30.65
top 22.5%1,547 / 7,841
3×3 blindfolded1:41.30
early days — 2 solves564 / 2,092
Square-121.4426.38
top 31.2%2,016 / 6,743
5×51:47.651:51.23
top 41.0%3,318 / 9,401
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves
early days — 1 solve1,364 / 2,040

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

Michigan Cubing Club Gamma 2018: 17.24Holy Toledo Summer 2018: 13.60Flag City Fall 2018: 11.37Imagination Station 2018: 11.72Blue Water Winter 2019: 9.78Flag City Spring 2019: 8.26Battle for Toledo 2019: 9.49Cuyahoga Cubing 2019: 9.18Blue Water Bridge Open 2022: 8.61Michigan Cubing Club Alpha 2022: 8.748.2617.2417 Jun 201818 Jun 2022

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.