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Ivan Matthews

2×2 · top 18.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015MATT08

Ivan Matthews has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.36, set at AZCubing Spring 2016, puts him in the top 18.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,245th in the United States. Across 9 competitions since November 2015, he has put 246 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.74 in November 2015 to 14.04, a 25% improvement. Ivan has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 18.5% of 186,767 all-time
3.36
signature single · AZCubing Spring 2016
246
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.365.10
top 18.5%7,245 / 40,951
3×314.0417.09
top 21.1%11,374 / 59,724
Pyraminx6.589.77
top 24.5%6,675 / 28,708
Megaminx1:39.401:47.12
top 34.3%2,430 / 7,841
Square-126.0837.50
top 41.6%2,701 / 6,743
Skewb8.8518.81
top 47.4%8,397 / 18,907
5×51:58.112:10.32
top 48.1%4,021 / 9,401
4×41:12.661:26.72
top 49.5%8,304 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed34.7536.29
top 56.8%7,905 / 15,683
6×63:58.234:11.44
top 64.8%2,509 / 4,196
7×75:53.086:14.58
top 66.0%2,003 / 3,184
3×3 Fewest Moves68 moves
early days — 1 solve2,010 / 2,040

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

AZCubing Fall 2015: 18.74AZCubing Winter 2016: 16.84AZCubing Spring 2016: 18.61AZCubing Summer 2016: 19.31AZCubing Fall 2016: 15.30AZCubing Winter 2017: 16.19AZCubing Spring 2017: 14.04Cubic Meltdown 2017: 15.5814.0419.317 Nov 20159 Dec 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.

  • Dan Tran — met in 54 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Ivan Vanek — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Daniel York — met in 44 rounds, finished ahead 17 times

Next targets

  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.04 away.

Targets move as he improves.