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James Gleadell

3×3 · top 20.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2018 · 2018GLEA01

James Gleadell has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.87, set at CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018, puts him in the top 20.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,382nd in the United Kingdom. Across 5 competitions since March 2018, he has put 113 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. James has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 20.5% of 284,439 all-time
13.87
signature single · CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018
113
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 89% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×313.8715.88
top 20.5%1,382 / 6,689
4×450.581:02.50
top 25.4%563 / 2,071
2×24.735.31
top 35.9%1,902 / 4,895
5×51:55.952:04.76
top 46.7%576 / 1,151
3×3 one-handed33.5345.88
top 54.5%966 / 1,851
Pyraminx11.5318.55
top 64.2%2,535 / 3,656

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

Cubalaya 2018: 14.36CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 13.87DFW Cubing Fiesta June 2018: 15.83Lone Star Cubing 2019: 13.90Texas Out of School 2019: 14.7613.8715.8331 Mar 201815 Jun 2019

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

  • 31 Mar 2018First competition: Cubalaya 2018. A 16.02 3×3 single to start from.
  • 31 Mar 2018First sub-15 3×3: 14.36 at Cubalaya 2018.

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.87 away.
  • A sub-50 4×4 single — 20,746 people have one; it is 0.58 away.

Targets move as he improves.