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Jonty De Pledge

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2014 · 2014PLED01

Jonty De Pledge has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.31, set at NZ North Island Championship 2023, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 181st in New Zealand. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since October 2014, he has put 140 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.33 in October 2014 to 10.31, a 44% improvement. Jonty has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.31
signature single · NZ North Island Championship 2023
140
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×310.3111.91
top 8.4%181 / 2,095
2×22.764.92
top 11.6%229 / 1,615
3×3 one-handed17.5023.39
top 13.8%88 / 600
4×443.9054.73
top 16.9%124 / 722
Pyraminx7.7313.55
top 34.0%453 / 1,141
5×51:51.541:59.64
top 43.7%149 / 355
6×63:21.003:33.36
early days — 3 solves87 / 149
7×75:14.395:40.24
early days — 3 solves85 / 126
Megaminx2:37.712:47.59
top 65.0%201 / 283

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

Hamilton Spring 2014: 18.33Auckland Mid-Year Madness 2023: 12.01NZ North Island Championship 2023: 10.3110.3118.335 Oct 201427 Oct 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 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.76 away.

Targets move as he improves.