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Jonathan Culbertson

3×3 · top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017CULB01

Jonathan Culbertson has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.36, set at Slow N Steady Summer 2019, puts him in the top 8.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,692nd in the United States. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since April 2017, he has put 696 official solves on the record across 13 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 58% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.08 in April 2017 to 10.36, a 48% improvement. Jonathan has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.5% of 284,439 all-time
10.36
signature single · Slow N Steady Summer 2019
696
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 58% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×310.3611.69
top 8.5%4,692 / 59,724
2×22.794.42
top 11.9%4,693 / 40,951
Square-113.5820.95
top 13.2%904 / 6,743
4×441.4245.63
top 13.8%2,057 / 19,072
Pyraminx5.227.58
top 14.6%3,820 / 28,708
5×51:17.491:28.05
top 17.2%1,333 / 9,401
3×3 one-handed21.4327.80
top 24.4%3,143 / 15,683
Skewb6.749.58
top 31.6%5,233 / 18,907
6×62:52.632:59.00
top 37.4%1,355 / 4,196
7×74:24.304:48.41
top 39.2%1,109 / 3,184
Megaminx1:57.982:12.05
top 44.6%3,265 / 7,841
3×3 Fewest Moves44 moves—
top 62.5%1,310 / 2,040
Clock24.18—
early days — 1 solve6,560 / 8,927

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

Red Cross Cubing Open 2017: 20.08Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 16.28TJHSST Fall 2017: 13.88Severna Park Showdown 2017: 12.14Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 13.39Slow N Steady Winter 2018: 13.31Binghamton Winter Cube Day 2018: 14.09No Place For DNF Spring 2018: 12.50Maryland 2018: 12.89Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 11.91Princeton Fall 2018: 10.81Fall Foliage Cubing 2018: 10.41Lower Moreland Fall 2018: 12.20CubingUSA New Jersey Championship 2018: 11.21Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 11.73New Hope Open Winter 2019: 12.29Princeton Winter 2019: 10.68CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2019: 12.62Penn Cube Day Spring 2019: 11.31CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 11.20Quabbin Summer 2019: 10.63Slow N Steady Summer 2019: 10.36North Carolina Championship 2023: 10.9210.3620.0822 Apr 20174 Nov 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.

  • Will Callan — met in 120 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Dana Yi — met in 105 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Mitchell Hum — met in 103 rounds, finished ahead 9 times

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.79 away.

Targets move as he improves.