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Jacob Smith

3×3 · top 41.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014SMIT10

Jacob Smith has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.50, set at Rose City 2017, puts him in the top 41.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 23,585th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since July 2014, he has put 113 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 43.91 in July 2014 to 20.50, a 53% improvement. Jacob has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 41.4% of 284,439 all-time
20.50
signature single · Rose City 2017
113
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×320.5024.97
top 41.4%23,585 / 59,724
Pyraminx11.5014.83
top 64.0%18,881 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed44.981:05.64
top 71.5%10,301 / 15,683
2×210.3014.51
top 79.1%32,772 / 40,951
4×42:58.73
early days — 2 solves18,518 / 19,072
5×57:38.28
early days — 2 solves9,398 / 9,401

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

Keep Austin Weird 2014: 43.91Austin Cubing Limits 2015: 49.06Rose City Cubing Competition 2015: 42.07UW Spring 2015: 43.10Cubes4Speed MOX Summer 2015: 33.08Keep Portland Weird 2015: 36.66PDX Cubing Alpha 2016: 28.92Puget Sound Spring 2016: 28.07Rose City 2016: 25.16Keep Portland Weird 2017: 25.58Rose City 2017: 20.5020.5049.0619 Jul 201420 May 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.50 away.
  • A sub-10 Pyraminx single — 68,530 people have one; it is 1.50 away.

Targets move as he improves.