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Joe Ewbank

3×3 one-handed · top 2.0% of 73,695 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015EWBA01

Joe Ewbank has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 11.14, set at Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018, puts him in the top 2.0% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 40th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2011, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since September 2015, he has put 1,665 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.01 in September 2015 to 8.10, a 61% improvement. Joe has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 2.0% of 73,695 all-time
11.14
signature single · Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018
1,665
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 one-handed11.1415.50
top 2.0%40 / 1,851
4×428.6636.44
top 2.1%54 / 2,071
3×38.109.64
top 3.0%244 / 6,689
Skewb2.524.77
top 3.0%68 / 2,421
Pyraminx3.294.78
top 4.6%177 / 3,656
2×22.072.78
top 5.2%384 / 4,895
Megaminx51.1757.82
top 5.6%76 / 966
5×51:00.411:06.74
top 5.7%75 / 1,151
7×72:50.043:01.31
top 7.9%36 / 459
6×61:57.182:06.04
top 9.9%64 / 548
Square-113.0918.43
top 12.1%124 / 778
Clock7.9610.44
top 15.1%215 / 1,232
3×3 blindfolded3:18.10—
early days — 2 solves217 / 311

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

Cuthberts Open 2015: 21.01UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 19.61Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 17.76North London Open 2016: 14.83Guildford Open 2016: 11.07UK Championship 2016: 11.84Manchester Open 2017: 9.91Peterborough Open 2017: 11.42Crawley Open 2017: 8.98August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 10.32Guildford Open 2017: 10.21UK Championship 2017: 9.30Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 9.73High Wycombe Open 2018: 8.86Hastings Open 2018: 9.79Peterborough Open 2018: 8.51Irish Championship 2018: 8.96August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 9.84Stratford-upon-Avon Open 2018: 8.64UK Championship 2018: 9.14Cambridge Open 2018: 8.95Fontwell Open 2019: 8.10West London Open 2022: 9.14Příbram Cube 2023: 8.788.1021.0126 Sep 201523 Sep 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-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.14 away.
  • A sub-25 4×4 single — 588 people have one; it is 3.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.