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Ian Jones

3×3 · top 15.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2009 · 2009JONE03

Ian Jones has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.32, set at Nisei Week Open 2010, puts him in the top 15.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,030th in the United States. Across 13 competitions since August 2009, he has put 279 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.62 in August 2009 to 12.32, a 60% improvement. Ian has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.0% of 284,439 all-time
12.32
signature single · Nisei Week Open 2010
279
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.3214.08
top 15.0%8,030 / 59,724
2×23.384.77
top 18.7%7,342 / 40,951
Clock10.0313.12
top 25.2%1,932 / 8,927
Square-123.6628.13
top 36.2%2,353 / 6,743
4×41:09.131:19.52
top 46.0%7,646 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed33.6338.65
top 54.7%7,583 / 15,683
5×52:13.212:26.56
top 57.2%4,859 / 9,401
Pyraminx10.8016.26
top 59.0%17,321 / 28,708

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

Nisei Week Open 2009: 30.62Caltech Fall competition 2009: 20.22Discovery Science Center Winter 2009: 17.69Bayview Hills Open 2010: 19.03Caltech Winter 2010: 14.53Moose Lodge 2010: 13.63San Diego Open 2010: 12.93United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 13.33Nisei Week Open 2010: 12.32Marymount Open 2010: 13.08Caltech Fall 2010: 13.06Caltech Winter 2011: 12.55St. Francis Winter Open 2015: 15.3312.3230.6222 Aug 20091 Feb 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.32 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.38 away.

Targets move as he improves.