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Kieran Van Vuuren

3×3 · top 18.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015VUUR01

Kieran Van Vuuren has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.19, set at Nisei Week 2017, puts him in the top 18.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 9,682nd in the United States. Across 10 competitions since August 2015, he has put 151 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.56 in August 2015 to 13.19, a 58% improvement. Kieran has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 18.1% of 284,439 all-time
13.19
signature single · Nisei Week 2017
151
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×313.1914.19
top 18.1%9,682 / 59,724
Pyraminx6.6512.40
top 25.0%6,829 / 28,708
2×24.074.84
top 27.4%10,817 / 40,951
Skewb6.869.66
top 32.5%5,444 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed27.0834.39
top 39.6%5,267 / 15,683
4×41:36.65
early days — 2 solves12,179 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves49 moves
early days — 2 solves1,575 / 2,040

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

Nisei Week 2015: 31.56Irvine Fall 2015: 29.53Newport Spring 2016: 16.13St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 16.56SoCal Supercomp 2016: 13.69US Nationals 2016: 17.19Nisei Week 2016: 15.00Newport Fall 2016: 16.05Cerritos Open 2017: 13.28Nisei Week 2017: 13.1913.1931.5615 Aug 201519 Aug 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 1.19 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.