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Hayes Bretzke

3×3 · top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2015 · 2015BRET01

Hayes Bretzke has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.59, set at River Hill Winter 2015, puts him in the top 9.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5,049th in the United States. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since March 2015, he has put 57 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Hayes has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.2% of 284,439 all-time
10.59
signature single · River Hill Winter 2015
57
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.5914.80
top 9.2%5,049 / 59,724
2×24.497.40
top 32.8%13,043 / 40,951
4×41:10.721:13.41
top 47.6%7,932 / 19,072
5×52:18.862:34.24
top 60.4%5,183 / 9,401
Megaminx3:50.33
early days — 2 solves7,104 / 7,841
Skewb24.0032.59
top 94.1%18,072 / 18,907

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

River Hill Winter 2015: 10.59Johns Hopkins Winter 2015: 16.65Great Lakes Cubing Competition 2015: 13.4010.5916.657 Mar 201518 Jul 2015

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 0.59 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.49 away.

Targets move as he improves.