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Joseph Cooper

3×3 · top 8.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017COOP03

Joseph Cooper has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.26, set at Lincoln Summer 2022, puts him in the top 8.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 599th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since October 2017, he has put 168 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 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.31 in October 2017 to 10.26, a 54% improvement. Joseph has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.2% of 284,439 all-time
10.26
signature single · Lincoln Summer 2022
168
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×310.2613.62
top 8.2%599 / 6,689
2×22.834.53
top 12.3%761 / 4,895
4×443.6151.08
top 16.5%379 / 2,071
Skewb6.2212.12
top 27.5%641 / 2,421
Pyraminx6.969.80
top 27.5%1,091 / 3,656
5×51:30.941:35.66
top 28.1%368 / 1,151
Square-124.5227.20
top 38.1%341 / 778
3×3 one-handed26.5329.12
top 38.1%670 / 1,851
6×63:35.46
early days — 1 solve341 / 548

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

UK Championship 2017: 22.31Manchester Open 2018: 18.95Wakefield Spring 2022: 12.47Lincoln Summer 2022: 10.2610.2622.3127 Oct 201720 Aug 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.26 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.