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Jake Thompson

2×2 · top 9.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2021 · 2021THOM09

Jake Thompson has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.53, set at Circle City Summer 2022, puts him in the top 9.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,622nd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 21 competitions since December 2021, he has put 571 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.64 in December 2021 to 10.80, a 48% improvement. Jake has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 9.2% of 186,767 all-time
2.53
signature single · Circle City Summer 2022
571
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.533.74
top 9.2%3,622 / 40,951
3×310.8012.26
top 9.9%5,360 / 59,724
Clock7.059.26
top 11.1%857 / 8,927
4×442.9950.09
top 15.7%2,383 / 19,072
Megaminx1:13.101:22.79
top 17.5%1,188 / 7,841
Skewb5.3210.60
top 20.6%3,299 / 18,907
Square-118.1521.98
top 23.7%1,565 / 6,743
Pyraminx6.579.83
top 24.4%6,651 / 28,708
5×51:27.541:35.20
top 25.3%1,974 / 9,401
7×74:01.274:26.84
top 31.2%867 / 3,184
6×62:45.713:00.04
top 33.8%1,215 / 4,196
3×3 one-handed25.2630.37
top 34.9%4,607 / 15,683

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

Westview Winter B 2021: 20.64Anaheim Winter A 2022: 24.56San Diego Spring 2022: 23.02Geffen Spring 2022: 20.87Circle City Summer 2022: 15.16Irvine Summer 2022: 15.91Marshall Cubing September 2022: 14.67WCC Western Championship 2022: 16.16San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 16.89Cozy Cubing Poway 2023: 11.81Oak Valley Winter B 2023: 11.47Marshall Cubing Spring 2023: 12.13A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 13.61Give Back RPV 2023: 11.65Gonna Need a Bigger Cube SD 2023: 11.96UCSD For Hemophilia 2023: 12.76Poway Summer Cubing 2023: 11.70CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 11.70Santa Ana Summer B 2023: 10.80UCSD Extravaganza 2023: 11.1510.8024.5611 Dec 20217 Oct 2023

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.53 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.