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Ian Scheffler

3×3 · top 25.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2012 · 2012SCHE03

Ian Scheffler has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.36, set at Big Cube Bash 2017, puts him in the top 25.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,955th in the United States. Across 16 competitions since August 2012, he has put 121 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:26.52 in August 2012 to 15.36, an 82% improvement. Ian has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 25.6% of 284,439 all-time
15.36
signature single · Big Cube Bash 2017
121
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×315.3617.24
top 25.6%13,955 / 59,724
2×26.6511.17
top 57.4%23,511 / 40,951
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves
early days — 1 solve1,364 / 2,040
Pyraminx23.41
early days — 1 solve27,916 / 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

United States National Championships 2012: 1:26.52World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 33.24Nisei Week 2014: 28.60Yale Spring 2015: 20.96Hungarian Nationals 2015: 22.56World Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 20.98Nisei Week 2015: 17.97Lexington Fall 2015: 18.80Manhasset Fall 2015: 20.17Liberty Science 2015: 17.62Big Apple Spring 2016: 18.14New York City Summer 2016: 16.86New York City Winter 2017: 18.23Big Cube Bash 2017: 15.36World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 17.86Brooklyn Fall 2019: 17.1215.361:26.523 Aug 201212 Oct 2019

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.