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Henry Hughes

3×3 · top 0.84% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015HUGH02

Henry Hughes has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.49, set at Pickering 2017, puts him in the top 0.84% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 82nd in Canada. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since April 2015, he has put 596 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 69% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.58 in April 2015 to 6.49, a 44% improvement. Henry has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.84% of 284,439 all-time
6.49
signature single · Pickering 2017
596
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 69% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×36.498.47
top 0.84%82 / 10,392
3×3 one-handed12.6817.44
top 3.9%89 / 2,620
4×438.9043.81
top 10.8%255 / 3,118
2×22.893.82
top 13.0%866 / 7,173
5×51:17.041:23.14
top 16.9%200 / 1,499
Pyraminx6.2910.02
top 22.1%935 / 4,858
6×62:58.963:02.80
early days — 3 solves209 / 665
Megaminx1:52.792:05.08
top 42.0%456 / 1,375
Skewb8.1216.46
top 42.2%1,085 / 2,907
7×75:27.955:41.13
early days — 3 solves248 / 503

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

Toronto Open Spring 2015: 11.58Toronto Open Fall 2015: 10.92Toronto Limited Spring 2016: 8.88Newmarket Open 2016: 8.12Toronto Limited Summer 2016: 9.33London Limited Spring 2017: 8.49Newmarket Open 2017: 8.28Battle of Waterloo 2017: 7.77Pickering 2017: 6.49Oakville Limited Fall 2017: 7.56Oakville Limited Winter 2018: 8.01Pickering Spring 2018: 8.31Ajax Winter 2019: 7.33Battle of Waterloo 2019: 7.73Oshawa Favourites 2022: 7.59Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 7.036.4911.5825 Apr 20157 Jul 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.49 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.68 away.

Targets move as he improves.