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Gavin Wills

3×3 · top 0.95% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015WILL01

Gavin Wills has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.61, set at Nisei Week 2016, puts him in the top 0.95% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 594th in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since January 2015, he has put 270 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.57 in January 2015 to 6.61, a 66% improvement. Gavin has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.95% of 284,439 all-time
6.61
signature single · Nisei Week 2016
270
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×36.619.00
top 0.95%594 / 59,724
2×21.412.65
top 1.8%705 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed16.6518.09
top 11.7%1,530 / 15,683
Skewb5.506.73
top 22.0%3,504 / 18,907
Square-126.0030.74
top 41.5%2,685 / 6,743
4×41:11.811:17.78
top 48.6%8,126 / 19,072

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

Nub Open 2015: 19.57San Diego Summer Splash 2015: 15.50Nisei Week 2015: 10.65Irvine Fall 2015: 11.04Caltech Fall 2015: 10.32Caltech Winter 2016: 10.10St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 9.06SoCal Supercomp 2016: 8.18Nisei Week 2016: 6.61Newport Fall 2016: 7.956.6119.5717 Jan 20158 Oct 2016

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.