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Kai Bucher

3×3 · top 17.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018BUCH01

Kai Bucher has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.00, set at Tbilisi Open 2022, puts him in the top 17.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,336th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since May 2018, he has put 70 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.28 in May 2018 to 13.00, a 49% improvement. Kai has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.4% of 284,439 all-time
13.00
signature single · Tbilisi Open 2022
70
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×313.0017.76
top 17.4%9,336 / 59,724
Skewb6.598.92
top 30.4%5,011 / 18,907
4×41:03.431:16.42
top 40.0%6,515 / 19,072
2×25.787.01
top 48.5%19,686 / 40,951

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

Tea Time Spring 2018: 25.28Maryland 2018: 22.26Arcadia Summer 2019: 19.52Georgia Autumn Open 2022: 16.06Tbilisi Open 2022: 13.0013.0025.2826 May 201827 Nov 2022

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.00 away.
  • A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.