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Ken Smith

3×3 · top 9.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016SMIT28

Ken Smith has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.56, set at SnoCo Fall 2019, puts him in the top 9.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 840th in Canada. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 19 competitions since August 2016, he has put 489 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.07 in August 2016 to 10.56, a 45% improvement. Ken has entered 19 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.1% of 284,439 all-time
10.56
signature single · SnoCo Fall 2019
489
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×310.5612.64
top 9.1%840 / 10,392
2×22.654.76
top 10.4%681 / 7,173
4×439.3645.55
top 11.4%273 / 3,118
3×3 one-handed18.2723.62
top 15.8%335 / 2,620
Megaminx1:33.401:47.92
top 30.3%302 / 1,375
Square-122.0431.78
top 32.6%284 / 952
5×51:52.542:03.86
top 44.4%564 / 1,499
Pyraminx9.1614.62
top 46.2%2,174 / 4,858
Skewb11.3918.85
top 62.9%1,764 / 2,907
6×64:34.74—
early days — 2 solves447 / 665
3×3 blindfolded6:30.44—
early days — 3 solves311 / 351

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

Oregon 2016: 19.07Vancouver Fall 2016: 14.84Vancouver Open Winter 2017: 15.25Puget Sound Winter 2017: 15.71Rose City 2017: 12.94Vancouver Open Summer 2017: 13.40Whistler Open 2017: 13.28Vancouver Open Winter 2018: 11.52Skyline Open 2018: 14.31Fraser Valley Spring Open 2018: 11.82St. John's Spring Open 2018: 12.05Canada's Best in the West 2018: 12.36Vancouver Select 2018: 12.52Vancouver Select Winter 2018: 11.73UBC Open 2019: 10.88Fraser Valley Spring Open 2019: 11.95SnoCo Fall 2019: 10.5610.5619.0727 Aug 201616 Nov 2019

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.56 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.