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Kai Gorecki

3×3 · top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2019 · 2019GORE02

Kai Gorecki has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.03, set at Ayase 2020, puts him in the top 4.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,758th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since February 2019, he has put 84 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.21 in February 2019 to 9.03, a 32% improvement. Kai has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.03
signature single · Ayase 2020
84
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.0311.92
top 4.9%2,758 / 59,724
4×449.6556.02
top 24.3%3,711 / 19,072
2×24.536.16
top 33.3%13,257 / 40,951
Pyraminx8.1712.68
top 37.6%10,723 / 28,708
5×51:47.621:53.35
top 40.9%3,317 / 9,401

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

Ayase 2019: 13.21Thousand Oaks Cubing Open 2019: 11.95Tribox Open Spring 2019: 9.43Nishinomiya Open 2019: 11.40Nisei Week 2019: 10.99Ayase 2020: 9.039.0313.212 Feb 201916 Feb 2020

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 1.03 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 9.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.