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Kai Palmer

Pyraminx · top 35.6% of 129,321 all-time · competing since September 2021 · 2021PALM01

Kai Palmer has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 7.93, set at Rockingham Rapid 2021, puts him in the top 35.6% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,890th in Australia. Across 3 competitions since September 2021, he has put 59 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 26.56 in September 2021 to 21.18, a 20% improvement. Kai has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 35.6% of 129,321 all-time
7.93
signature single · Rockingham Rapid 2021
59
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
Pyraminx7.9311.39
top 35.6%1,890 / 5,993
3×321.1823.74
top 43.2%4,329 / 11,709
Skewb8.9613.24
top 48.1%1,527 / 3,534
2×26.407.53
top 55.0%4,390 / 8,567
4×42:03.18
early days — 2 solves2,574 / 3,051

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

Rockingham Rapid 2021: 26.56Puzzling Pinjarra 2021: 24.66Perth Summer 2023: 21.1821.1826.5612 Sep 202121 Jan 2023

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-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 1.93 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.