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Joshua M. Cortez

3×3 · top 10.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019CORT02

Joshua M. Cortez has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.98, set at Newmarket Open 2019, puts him in the top 10.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 963rd in Canada. Across 2 competitions since January 2019, he has put 28 official solves on the record across five events. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.31 in January 2019 to 10.98, a 40% improvement. Joshua has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 10.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.98
signature single · Newmarket Open 2019
28
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×310.9818.00
top 10.4%963 / 10,392
2×24.965.39
top 38.8%2,687 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed26.9836.71
top 39.3%873 / 2,620
Pyraminx9.7412.09
top 51.0%2,441 / 4,858
5×53:23.99
early days — 2 solves1,193 / 1,499

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

Ajax Winter 2019: 18.31Newmarket Open 2019: 10.9810.9818.3112 Jan 201922 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.98 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.