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Jacob Burney

3×3 · top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017BURN03

Jacob Burney has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.00, set at Stevenage Summer 2022, puts him in the top 7.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 545th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since June 2017, he has put 153 official solves on the record across eight 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 19.84 in June 2017 to 10.00, a 50% improvement. Jacob has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.00
signature single · Stevenage Summer 2022
153
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 Kingdom
3×310.0012.68
top 7.4%545 / 6,689
4×442.7356.04
top 15.4%359 / 2,071
5×51:22.681:37.42
top 21.3%285 / 1,151
3×3 one-handed21.1025.03
top 23.5%438 / 1,851
2×24.275.64
top 30.0%1,597 / 4,895
Skewb8.0915.92
top 42.0%996 / 2,421
Pyraminx11.8218.20
top 66.1%2,587 / 3,656
Megaminx2:42.94
early days — 2 solves758 / 966

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

Crawley Open 2017: 19.84August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 17.02Guildford Open 2017: 18.50Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 16.53Wakefield Open 2022: 10.84Stevenage Summer 2022: 10.0010.0019.843 Jun 20179 Jul 2022

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 2.00 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 2.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.