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Kai Hicks

3×3 · top 16.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016HICK05

Kai Hicks has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.80, set at Puget Sound Winter 2017, puts him in the top 16.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,957th in the United States. Across 2 competitions since October 2016, he has put 15 official solves on the record across two events. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.89 in October 2016 to 12.80, a 32% improvement. Kai has entered two competitions.

3×3
best event — top 16.7% of 284,439 all-time
12.80
signature single · Puget Sound Winter 2017
15
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.8022.18
top 16.7%8,957 / 59,724
3×3 one-handed28.7139.52
top 43.7%5,893 / 15,683

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

Puget Sound Fall 2016: 18.89Puget Sound Winter 2017: 12.8012.8018.8915 Oct 201625 Feb 2017

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 0.80 away.
  • A sub-25 3×3 one-handed single — 25,198 people have one; it is 3.71 away.

Targets move as he improves.