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Ilan Pinkus

3×3 · top 30.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2015 · 2015PINK01

Ilan Pinkus has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.74, set at AZCubing Fall 2015, puts him in the top 30.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,611th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since June 2015, he has put 70 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.44 in June 2015 to 16.74, a 25% improvement. Ilan has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 30.2% of 284,439 all-time
16.74
signature single · AZCubing Fall 2015
70
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.7421.11
top 30.2%16,611 / 59,724
2×24.487.29
top 32.7%12,990 / 40,951
Pyraminx10.4713.63
top 56.6%16,573 / 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

SoCal Supercomp 2015: 22.44US Nationals 2015: 18.48AZCubing Fall 2015: 16.74AZCubing Winter 2016: 18.37US Nationals 2016: 17.5216.7422.4427 Jun 201529 Jul 2016

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 1.74 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.48 away.

Targets move as he improves.