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Josiah Martin

3×3 · top 5.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018MART39

Josiah Martin has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.30, set at Spokane Fall 2022, puts him in the top 5.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,118th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since May 2018, he has put 164 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 18% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.66 in May 2018 to 9.30, a 57% improvement. Josiah has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.6% of 284,439 all-time
9.30
signature single · Spokane Fall 2022
164
official solves on the record
18%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.3011.45
top 5.6%3,118 / 59,724
2×22.185.36
top 6.0%2,413 / 40,951
Pyraminx7.4418.13
top 31.5%8,801 / 28,708
4×458.461:09.41
top 34.8%5,601 / 19,072
Square-129.0550.36
top 47.6%3,099 / 6,743
Skewb14.5323.09
top 76.7%14,594 / 18,907
5×53:04.73
top 79.6%7,222 / 9,401
Clock35.5244.96
top 90.2%8,064 / 8,927

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

Inland Empire Spring 2018: 21.66Spokane Summer 2022: 10.50Inland Empire Summer 2022: 10.37Spokane Fall 2022: 9.30Sandpoint The North Awakens 2023: 11.27Spokane Summer 2023: 10.239.3021.6619 May 201826 Aug 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.30 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.