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Josh Humpherys

3×3 · top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018HUMP01

Josh Humpherys has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.04, set at Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,771st in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since May 2018, he has put 238 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.44 in May 2018 to 9.04, a 13% improvement. Josh has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.04
signature single · Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019
238
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.0410.94
top 4.9%2,771 / 59,724
2×22.404.02
top 8.0%3,139 / 40,951
3×3 blindfolded1:31.531:48.67
top 23.6%483 / 2,092
4×453.181:03.22
top 28.6%4,439 / 19,072

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

Thanks for the InFive 2018: 10.44West Coast Cubing Tour - Los Angeles 2018: 12.55West Coast Cubing Tour - Fresno 2018: 12.31West Coast Cubing Tour - Cupertino 2018: 10.41Nisei Week 2018: 11.71Anaheim Fall 2018: 10.71Skillcon 2018: 10.62Mudd Winter 2019: 10.53UCSD Winter 2019: 9.91Santa Barbara Winter 2019: 10.28Las Vegas Spring 2019: 10.94Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019: 9.04CubingUSA Western Championship 2019: 10.449.0412.5512 May 201822 Jun 2019

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 1.04 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.40 away.

Targets move as he improves.