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Jesse Adams

3×3 · top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2013 · 2013ADAM01

Jesse Adams has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.41, set at OKCubing 2016, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,259th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since January 2013, he has put 303 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.30 in January 2013 to 9.41, a 23% improvement. Jesse has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.41
signature single · OKCubing 2016
303
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.4111.87
top 5.9%3,259 / 59,724
Pyraminx4.086.10
top 8.1%2,062 / 28,708
2×23.023.98
top 14.5%5,677 / 40,951
4×446.1256.97
top 19.7%2,995 / 19,072
Square-124.791:00.16
top 38.7%2,514 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed27.8530.82
top 41.5%5,575 / 15,683
Skewb8.1515.50
top 42.4%7,412 / 18,907
5×52:29.253:33.32
top 65.4%5,699 / 9,401
Megaminx3:31.01
early days — 3 solves6,694 / 7,841

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

Houston Winter 2013: 12.30World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 12.14Houston Winter Open 2014: 10.36Carroll Spring Open 2014: 10.91Oklahoma Open 2014: 9.71OKCubing 2016: 9.41Oklahoma Fall 2016: 10.03Dallas Fall 2016: 11.269.4112.305 Jan 201322 Oct 2016

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.41 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 9,892 people have one; it is 0.08 away.

Targets move as he improves.