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Jan Laidler

3×3 · top 13.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2018 · 2018LAID01

Jan Laidler has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.75, set at Fontwell Open 2019, puts him in the top 13.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 918th in the United Kingdom. Across 5 competitions since June 2018, he has put 109 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.74 in June 2018 to 11.75, a 51% improvement. Jan has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 13.0% of 284,439 all-time
11.75
signature single · Fontwell Open 2019
109
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×311.7513.87
top 13.0%918 / 6,689
Pyraminx5.289.15
top 14.9%573 / 3,656
2×24.136.38
top 28.1%1,514 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed24.6130.69
top 33.2%599 / 1,851
4×41:07.151:13.80
top 44.1%961 / 2,071
Square-128.2440.48
top 46.1%409 / 778

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

Peterborough Open 2018: 23.74August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 15.91UK Championship 2018: 14.44Cambridge Open 2018: 12.50Fontwell Open 2019: 11.7511.7523.7430 Jun 20189 Feb 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 1.75 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.28 away.

Targets move as he improves.