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Julian Austrian

3×3 · top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2022 · 2022AUST07

Julian Austrian has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.16, set at CubingUSA New England Championship 2023, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,743rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since December 2022, he has put 186 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.87 in December 2022 to 8.16, a 64% improvement. Julian has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.1% of 284,439 all-time
8.16
signature single · CubingUSA New England Championship 2023
186
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.1611.46
top 3.1%1,743 / 59,724
2×22.293.77
top 7.0%2,756 / 40,951
Pyraminx4.038.30
top 7.8%1,998 / 28,708
Clock12.0713.91
top 35.3%2,797 / 8,927
3×3 one-handed27.7837.42
top 41.3%5,536 / 15,683
4×41:04.701:11.94
top 41.4%6,783 / 19,072
5×51:50.402:09.23
top 42.8%3,500 / 9,401
Skewb11.1114.54
top 61.4%11,328 / 18,907

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

New York Yopen 2022: 22.87PBs in Palisades 2023: 9.23Westport Warmup 2023: 11.66CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 8.16Ridgefield Spring 2024: 8.74An Afternoon in Nyack 2024: 11.258.1622.873 Dec 202229 Sep 2024

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.

  • Evan Liu — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Samuel Krasne — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 16 times
  • Curtis Chai — met in 35 rounds, never finished ahead

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.16 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.