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Jonathan Sun

3×3 · top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014SUNJ01

Jonathan Sun has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.33, set at Poly Cubed 2018, puts him in the top 5.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,157th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since July 2014, he has put 426 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 28.96 in July 2014 to 9.33, a 68% improvement. Jonathan has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.7% of 284,439 all-time
9.33
signature single · Poly Cubed 2018
426
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.3310.18
top 5.7%3,157 / 59,724
2×22.733.27
top 11.3%4,435 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed21.9439.52
top 25.9%3,338 / 15,683
Pyraminx7.1410.06
top 29.0%8,022 / 28,708
4×457.191:03.21
top 33.3%5,318 / 19,072
Skewb7.2110.79
top 35.3%5,974 / 18,907
5×52:55.363:17.29
top 76.5%6,860 / 9,401

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

Newport Cube Day 2014: 28.96Newport Winter Open 2014: 16.33St. Francis Winter Open 2015: 16.48Caltech Winter Open 2015: 14.23Orange Coast Puzzle Meet 2015: 14.39Alliance for Education 2015: 13.70SoCal Supercomp 2015: 13.03Nisei Week 2015: 12.61Irvine Fall 2015: 13.58Caltech Fall 2015: 11.10Nub Open 2016: 41.30St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 11.24Poly Cubed 2016: 11.36SoCal Supercomp 2016: 10.88US Nationals 2016: 12.96Nisei Week 2016: 13.12Qualifornia 2017: 10.97Poly Cubed 2017: 10.40Anaheim Fall 2018: 10.04Poly Cubed 2018: 9.33Mudd Winter 2019: 10.10Mudd Winter 2020: 9.689.3341.305 Jul 201422 Feb 2020

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 1.33 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.73 away.

Targets move as he improves.