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Keone Shelley-Lyons

3×3 · top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016SHEL04

Keone Shelley-Lyons has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.43, set at Palmerston North 2018, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 135th in New Zealand. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since May 2016, he has put 151 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.57 in May 2016 to 9.43, a 56% improvement. Keone has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.43
signature single · Palmerston North 2018
151
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
3×39.4311.92
top 5.9%135 / 2,095
3×3 one-handed16.5722.00
top 11.5%79 / 600
Pyraminx6.3712.08
top 22.8%315 / 1,141
2×23.864.64
top 24.7%447 / 1,615
Skewb6.8213.70
top 32.2%250 / 666
4×41:09.861:14.19
top 46.7%314 / 722
5×52:28.943:01.48
top 65.3%229 / 355

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

Wellington Autumn 2016: 21.57Palmerston North 2016: 13.23Mind Games 2017: 11.26SNZ Northern 2017: 11.30New Zealand Nationals 2017: 11.11Mind Games 2018: 11.21Palmerston North 2018: 9.439.4321.5722 May 201627 May 2018

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 1.43 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 one-handed single — 5,987 people have one; it is 1.57 away.

Targets move as he improves.