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Kay Smink

3×3 · top 23.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016SMIN01

Kay Smink has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.78, set at Dutch Nationals 2017, puts him in the top 23.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 681st in the Netherlands. Across 4 competitions since October 2016, he has put 86 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Kay has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 23.7% of 284,439 all-time
14.78
signature single · Dutch Nationals 2017
86
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNetherlands
3×314.7816.66
top 23.7%681 / 2,294
2×24.555.05
top 33.6%757 / 1,665
4×41:13.841:31.59
top 50.6%497 / 1,000
Pyraminx10.2114.65
top 54.7%816 / 1,283

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

Dutch Nationals 2016: 16.25Dutch Winter 2017: 16.84Hoogland Open 2017: 14.85Dutch Nationals 2017: 14.7814.7816.841 Oct 201623 Sep 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 2.78 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.