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James Laase

3×3 · top 15.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2017 · 2017LAAS01

James Laase has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.42, set at Don't Mess With Texas 2017, puts him in the top 15.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,217th in the United States. Across 3 competitions since February 2017, he has put 80 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. James has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 15.3% of 284,439 all-time
12.42
signature single · Don't Mess With Texas 2017
80
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.4213.46
top 15.3%8,217 / 59,724
2×23.134.26
top 15.8%6,173 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed18.9624.68
top 17.7%2,277 / 15,683
4×41:11.621:24.73
top 48.4%8,095 / 19,072

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

Dallas Winter Variation 2017: 12.70College Station Qualifier 2017: 13.46Don't Mess With Texas 2017: 12.4212.4213.4618 Feb 201729 Apr 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.