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Gideon Smathers

3×3 · top 31.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2023 · 2023SMAT01

Gideon Smathers has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.99, set at Oredigger Open 2024, puts him in the top 31.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 17,061st in the United States. Across 5 competitions since December 2023, he has put 86 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 35.01 in December 2023 to 16.99, a 51% improvement. Gideon has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 31.0% of 284,439 all-time
16.99
signature single · Oredigger Open 2024
86
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.9927.02
top 31.0%17,061 / 59,724
2×24.837.62
top 37.2%14,859 / 40,951
Skewb8.7514.53
top 46.7%8,271 / 18,907
Pyraminx12.6916.48
top 71.3%21,098 / 28,708
Megaminx3:24.02
early days — 1 solve6,517 / 7,841
4×42:03.46
top 83.2%15,568 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed1:08.62
early days — 2 solves13,457 / 15,683
Clock40.64
early days — 2 solves8,395 / 8,927

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

Happy Holidays Colorado 2023: 35.01DeNxNver 2024: 22.93Oredigger Open 2024: 16.99Spring Madness Colorado 2024: 23.13Colorado Springs Showdown 2024: 22.3516.9935.0130 Dec 20233 Aug 2024

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 1.99 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.