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Hugh McGlone

3×3 · top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2014 · 2014MCGL01

Hugh McGlone has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.40, set at Adelaide Summer 2017, puts him in the top 5.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 536th in Australia. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since June 2014, he has put 382 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.27 in June 2014 to 9.40, a 58% improvement. Hugh has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.8% of 284,439 all-time
9.40
signature single · Adelaide Summer 2017
382
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×39.4012.23
top 5.8%536 / 11,709
2×22.514.42
top 9.0%679 / 8,567
4×448.8157.39
top 23.2%579 / 3,051
Pyraminx6.5010.34
top 23.8%1,211 / 5,993
Skewb5.847.84
top 24.5%654 / 3,534
5×51:27.851:38.67
top 25.6%346 / 1,356
3×3 one-handed25.3432.50
top 35.1%798 / 2,659
Megaminx2:02.53
early days — 2 solves575 / 1,277
6×63:17.883:21.61
top 49.5%299 / 641
7×75:07.655:27.97
top 53.1%259 / 523

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

Melbourne Winter 2014: 22.27Lifestyle Seasons Winter 2014: 15.15Melbourne Cube Day 2014: 19.51Melbourne Autumn 2015: 17.96Cube for Cambodia 2015: 14.31Lifestyle Seasons Winter 2015: 12.36Australian Nationals 2015: 9.93Melbourne Cube Days 2015: 12.78Adelaide Summer 2017: 9.40Lifestyle Seasons Summer 2017: 10.889.4022.2729 Jun 201418 Feb 2017

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.40 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.51 away.

Targets move as he improves.