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Joel Kahl

3×3 · top 40.8% of 288,433 all-time · competing since November 2016 · 2016KAHL01

Joel Kahl has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.25, set at Johannesburg 2016, puts him in the top 40.8% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 580th in South Africa. Across 1 competition since November 2016, he has put 30 official solves on the record across four events.

3×3
best event — top 40.8% of 288,433 all-time
20.25
signature single · Johannesburg 2016
30
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×320.2522.80
top 40.8%580 / 2,187
3×3 one-handed34.6340.86
top 56.7%160 / 473
2×26.8411.19
top 59.1%686 / 1,525
Pyraminx14.7317.00
top 80.9%727 / 958

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 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-20 3×3 single — 115,495 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 one-handed single — 34,866 people have one; it is 4.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.