People · Australia
Jack A. McDonald
3×3 · top 65.8% of 288,433 all-time · competing since October 2018 · 2018MCDO08
Jack A. McDonald has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 31.87, set at Puzzling Parramatta 2024, puts him in the top 65.8% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,478th in Australia. Across 11 competitions since October 2018, he has put 90 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 52.55 in October 2018 to 31.87, a 39% improvement. Jack has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 31.87 | 39.52 | top 65.8% | 7,478 / 11,943 | |
| Pyraminx | 14.47 | 20.84 | top 79.9% | 4,945 / 6,109 | |
| 2×2 | 13.69 | 18.53 | top 88.3% | 7,682 / 8,727 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 12 Aug 2023Three personal bests in one day at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023.
- 6 Oct 2018First competition: Australian Nationals 2018. A 52.55 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Puzzling Parramatta 2024 · 10 Aug 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023 · 12 Aug 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Warm Up Sydney Sunday 2023 · 16 Jul 2023 — 1 personal best set
- North Sydney Cube Day 2023 · 5 Mar 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Cubing at The Cube Sunday 2023 · 22 Jan 2023
- NSW Open 2022 · 11 Jun 2022
- Harold Park Classic 2019 · 25 Aug 2019
- WCA World Championship 2019 · 11 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Koalafication Sydney 2019 · 16 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Odd Day in Sydney 2018 · 11 Nov 2018 — 1 personal best set
- Australian Nationals 2018 · 6 Oct 2018
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.
- John Cook — met in 19 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Caleb Clark — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
- Sam Moliver — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-30 3×3 single — 180,530 people have one; it is 1.87 away.
- A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 87,967 people have one; it is 2.47 away.
Targets move as he improves.