People · Australia
Juno Niewand
2×2 · top 2.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018NIEW02
Juno Niewand has been competing for 8 years. Her best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.55, set at Solving in Sale 2022, puts her in the top 2.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 194th in Australia. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since April 2018, she has put 1,049 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.95 in April 2018 to 10.00, a 52% improvement. Juno has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2×2 | 1.55 | 4.52 | top 2.4% | 194 / 8,567 | |
| Skewb | 2.87 | 6.63 | top 4.4% | 137 / 3,534 | |
| 3×3 | 10.00 | 11.99 | top 7.4% | 697 / 11,709 | |
| 4×4 | 37.14 | 49.56 | top 8.8% | 225 / 3,051 | |
| Square-1 | 12.51 | 17.78 | top 10.9% | 114 / 899 | |
| Clock | 8.84 | 11.55 | top 19.1% | 213 / 1,095 | |
| Pyraminx | 5.90 | 7.57 | top 19.2% | 956 / 5,993 | |
| 5×5 | 1:23.51 | 1:25.90 | top 22.0% | 288 / 1,356 | |
| Megaminx | 1:22.84 | 1:26.77 | top 23.6% | 286 / 1,277 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 25.30 | 30.61 | top 35.0% | 797 / 2,659 | |
| 6×6 | 2:56.39 | 3:09.15 | top 39.2% | 247 / 641 | |
| 7×7 | 4:55.67 | 5:03.42 | top 49.4% | 242 / 523 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 12 Jul 2024Five personal bests in one day at Australian Nationals 2024.
- 2 Mar 2024Five personal bests in one day at Altona Algorithms 2024.
- 19 Jan 2024Six personal bests in one day at Melbourne Summer 2024.
- 9 Apr 2022Five personal bests in one day at Solving in Sale 2022.
- 17 Apr 2021Three personal bests in one day at Altona Algorithms Attempt 2 2021.
- 10 Apr 2021Eight personal bests in one day at Solving in Sale 2021.
Competitions
- Australian Nationals 2024 · 12 Jul 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Cubing at The Game Expo 2024 · 23 Mar 2024
- Brilliant Ballarat 2024 · 16 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Altona Algorithms 2024 · 2 Mar 2024 — 5 personal bests set
- Don't Inverloch Up 2024 · 10 Feb 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2024 · 19 Jan 2024 — 6 personal bests set
- Hampton Park Summer Saturday 2023 · 2 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Solving in Sale 2022 · 9 Apr 2022 — 5 personal bests set
- Altona Algorithms Attempt 2 2021 · 17 Apr 2021 — 3 personal bests set
- Solving in Sale 2021 · 10 Apr 2021 — 8 personal bests set
- Barwon Cube for the Kids 2021 · 14 Mar 2021 — 2 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2021 · 23 Jan 2021
- Puzzling Pakenham 2019 · 26 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Altona Algorithms 2019 · 5 Oct 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Horsham 2019 · 10 Aug 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- WCA World Championship 2019 · 11 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Koalafication Melbourne 2019 · 18 May 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Cube for Cambodia 2019 · 28 Apr 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Solving in Sale 2019 · 13 Apr 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Melbourne Mental Mania 2019 · 2 Mar 2019
- Brilliant Ballarat 2019 · 16 Feb 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Melbourne Summer 2019 · 26 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Melbourne Cube Days 2018 · 8 Dec 2018 — 1 personal best set
- St Kevin's College Spring 2018 · 27 Oct 2018 — 2 personal bests set
- Australian Nationals 2018 · 6 Oct 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Melbourne Winter 2018 · 2 Jun 2018
- Cube for Cambodia 2018 · 6 May 2018
- Canberra Autumn 2018 · 21 Apr 2018
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 her.
- Phoenix Patterson — met in 196 rounds, finished ahead 26 times
- Emmet Hobbs — met in 191 rounds, finished ahead 107 times
- David Epstein — met in 175 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
Next targets
- A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
- A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
Targets move as she improves.