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Humphrey Sanders

3×3 · top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2022 · 2022SAND26

Humphrey Sanders has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.65, set at Kewbz UK Open 2024, puts him in the top 6.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 489th in the United Kingdom. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since October 2022, he has put 304 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 2×2 best has come down from 5.10 in October 2022 to 2.60, a 49% improvement. Humphrey has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.5% of 284,439 all-time
9.65
signature single · Kewbz UK Open 2024
304
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×39.6512.57
top 6.5%489 / 6,689
2×22.603.86
top 9.9%648 / 4,895
Pyraminx6.0710.33
top 20.5%800 / 3,656
3×3 one-handed20.8824.15
top 22.9%425 / 1,851
4×455.491:02.93
top 31.3%698 / 2,071
Skewb6.8613.36
top 32.5%767 / 2,421
5×51:55.522:07.79
top 46.3%574 / 1,151
Square-147.92
early days — 2 solves600 / 778
Clock23.83
early days — 3 solves929 / 1,232

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

Stevenage Autumn B 2022: 5.10Essex Winter 2022: 3.89Wiltshire Winter 2023: 4.73Stevenage January 2023: 3.24Brent Cross Winter 2023: 2.95Mind Sports Olympiad London 2024: 4.26Kewbz UK Open 2024: 3.25Stevenage Beginners September A 2024: 2.60Stevenage October 2024: 2.892.605.101 Oct 20225 Oct 2024

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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 1.65 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.