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Jake Geren

3×3 · top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2014 · 2014GERE01

Jake Geren has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.08, set at Heartland Championships 2017, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,239th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since March 2014, he has put 657 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.10 in March 2014 to 10.08, a 47% improvement. Jake has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.7% of 284,439 all-time
10.08
signature single · Heartland Championships 2017
657
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.0811.81
top 7.7%4,239 / 59,724
2×22.464.78
top 8.5%3,352 / 40,951
5×51:06.801:19.00
top 9.5%744 / 9,401
4×438.8342.33
top 10.7%1,591 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed18.6722.63
top 16.9%2,186 / 15,683
Skewb5.718.22
top 23.5%3,786 / 18,907
Megaminx1:31.261:37.21
top 29.0%2,021 / 7,841
6×62:56.523:20.06
top 39.3%1,433 / 4,196
7×74:35.964:53.05
top 43.1%1,244 / 3,184
Pyraminx10.2114.06
top 54.7%15,962 / 28,708
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves
early days — 3 solves1,310 / 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

Dixon Spring 2014: 19.10Minnesota Cube Melt 2014: 16.94Iowa Corn Lovers 2014: 17.61Dixon Summer 2014: 14.54US Nationals 2014: 15.71Wiscube 2014: 17.51Cubetcha 2014: 15.58Minnesota Cube Melt 2015: 13.09Cubetcha 2016: 10.77Iowa State Spring 2017: 12.80Heartland Championships 2017: 10.08Cubetcha 2017: 11.28CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2018: 11.36Minnesota Cube Melt 2018: 10.13Cubetcha 2018: 12.32CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2019: 11.75North Liberty 2019: 10.12Cubetcha 2019: 11.2510.0819.1029 Mar 20142 Nov 2019

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.