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Gordon Findlay

3×3 · top 71.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2017 · 2017FIND02

Gordon Findlay has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 35.88, set at Basel Open 2020, puts him in the top 71.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event. Across 23 competitions since August 2017, he has put 105 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 11 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:05.04 in August 2017 to 35.88, a 45% improvement. Gordon has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 71.7% of 284,439 all-time
35.88
signature single · Basel Open 2020
105
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSwitzerland
3×335.8851.51
top 71.7%0 / 1,197
4×42:45.85
top 94.6%0 / 462
6×68:57.45
early days — 1 solve139 / 141

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

Swisscubing Cup Final 2017: 1:05.04Zurich Open 2017: 1:07.48Suisse Toy Fast Fingers 2017: 1:00.46Swiss Nationals 2017: 1:21.44Belfort Open 2018: 58.08Xlingen Open 2018: 51.42Wiler Würfelfest 2018: 55.98Zentralschweiz 2018: 58.70Peterborough Open 2018: 1:01.22Swisscubing Better Be Quick 2018: 59.17Swisscubing Cup III 2018: 44.53Argovia Open 2018: 57.35Swisscubing Cup Final 2018: 46.96D-City Cubing 2019: 55.52Zentralschweiz 2019: 48.27Wiler Würfelfest 2019: 48.26Swiss Nationals 2019: 42.06Swisscubing Cup III 2019: 51.14LYN Cubing Days 2019: 43.63Swisscubing Cup IV 2019: 44.33Swisscubing Cup V 2019: 50.06Basel Open 2020: 35.8835.881:21.4419 Aug 201715 Feb 2020

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-30 3×3 single — 177,856 people have one; it is 5.88 away.
  • A sub-2:00 4×4 single — 68,574 people have one; it is 45.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.