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Jonny Katz

3×3 · top 5.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016KATZ01

Jonny Katz has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.06, set at WCC Western Championship 2022, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,795th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since May 2016, he has put 393 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.14 in May 2016 to 9.06, a 71% improvement. Jonny has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.06
signature single · WCC Western Championship 2022
393
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.069.78
top 5.0%2,795 / 59,724
2×22.173.12
top 6.0%2,387 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.148.85
top 14.1%3,683 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed21.5928.22
top 24.8%3,207 / 15,683
Skewb7.4410.55
top 37.0%6,328 / 18,907

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

TFTI San Diego 2016: 31.14SoCal Supercomp 2016: 23.02Nisei Week 2016: 19.77Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 21.31Newport Fall 2016: 19.68Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016: 17.45Nisei Week 2017: 17.45Fresno Fall 2017: 14.99Santa Barbara Fall 2017: 12.79Newport Fall 2017: 15.67TF3I San Diego 2017: 15.21Poly Cubed 2017: 12.77Thanks for the InFive 2018: 15.40West Coast Cubing Tour - Fresno 2018: 15.35CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 16.70Nisei Week 2018: 15.02Poly Cubed 2018: 12.24Another Bruin Cube Day 2019: 14.06CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 14.34CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 10.51Nisei Week 2019: 12.86San Diego Summer 2019: 10.66Mudd Fall 2019: 11.06West LA Winter 2020: 11.87Mudd Winter 2020: 10.39Geffen Spring 2022: 9.13WCC Western Championship 2022: 9.069.0631.1429 May 20167 Oct 2022

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 1.06 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.17 away.

Targets move as he improves.