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Justin MacLean

3×3 · top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2016 · 2016MACL01

Justin MacLean has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.61, set at Canadian Championship 2019, puts him in the top 6.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 611th in Canada. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since April 2016, he has put 205 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% 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 April 2016 to 9.61, a 58% improvement. Justin has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.61
signature single · Canadian Championship 2019
205
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×39.6111.89
top 6.4%611 / 10,392
2×22.244.95
top 6.5%421 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed16.0720.26
top 10.4%232 / 2,620
Pyraminx4.715.30
top 11.5%434 / 4,858
4×440.5243.90
top 12.7%319 / 3,118
Skewb5.977.92
top 25.5%615 / 2,907
5×51:32.991:40.12
top 29.8%359 / 1,499
Megaminx1:38.171:46.18
top 33.5%348 / 1,375
6×62:48.803:12.93
early days — 3 solves183 / 665
Square-132.2044.45
top 53.6%479 / 952
7×75:13.66
early days — 1 solve232 / 503

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

Toronto Limited Spring 2016: 22.87Toronto Limited Fall 2016: 15.49London Limited Spring 2017: 12.59Battle of Waterloo 2017: 11.45Pickering 2017: 10.58Canadian Championship 2019: 9.619.6122.8730 Apr 201626 Jul 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.61 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.24 away.

Targets move as he improves.