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Joshua Badger

Pyraminx · top 6.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017BADG01

Joshua Badger has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.79, set at Koalafication Adelaide 2019, puts him in the top 6.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 290th in Australia. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since January 2017, he has put 197 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.86 in January 2017 to 12.30, a 41% improvement. Joshua has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 6.7% of 129,321 all-time
3.79
signature single · Koalafication Adelaide 2019
197
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Pyraminx3.795.69
top 6.7%290 / 5,993
2×22.825.26
top 12.2%924 / 8,567
3×312.3015.91
top 14.9%1,334 / 11,709
Skewb6.759.40
top 31.7%884 / 3,534
4×459.581:07.79
top 36.0%952 / 3,051
3×3 one-handed30.5534.35
top 47.9%1,116 / 2,659
5×52:09.062:32.36
top 54.9%757 / 1,356

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

Adelaide Summer 2017: 20.86Adelaide Summer 2018: 15.83Adelaide Summer 2019: 12.30Koalafication Adelaide 2019: 14.94WCA World Championship 2019: 16.61Adelaide Summer 2020: 13.0612.3020.8621 Jan 201711 Jan 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-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.