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Kyle Olsen

2×2 · top 15.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016OLSE02

Kyle Olsen has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.12, set at Cubing with the Viking 2017, puts him in the top 15.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 6,111th in the United States. Across 23 competitions since September 2016, he has put 409 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 24.39 in September 2016 to 13.77, a 44% improvement. Kyle has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 15.6% of 186,767 all-time
3.12
signature single · Cubing with the Viking 2017
409
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.126.83
top 15.6%6,111 / 40,951
3×313.7719.91
top 20.2%10,852 / 59,724
Skewb5.9510.91
top 25.4%4,116 / 18,907
4×458.031:05.50
top 34.3%5,513 / 19,072
Pyraminx8.0214.73
top 36.3%10,288 / 28,708
5×51:49.861:57.73
top 42.5%3,461 / 9,401
Megaminx2:02.422:08.34
top 47.1%3,484 / 7,841
3×3 one-handed32.3139.53
top 51.8%7,158 / 15,683
Square-138.2752.30
top 63.2%4,164 / 6,743
6×65:03.385:16.63
top 82.2%3,295 / 4,196
7×78:29.95
early days — 1 solve2,954 / 3,184

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

Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 24.39UMass ODS Fall 2016: 18.88Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 20.03WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 22.86New York City Winter 2017: 22.79Maybe Melrose Spring 2017: 20.30Quabbin Spring 2017: 21.06Sharon Summer 2017: 20.22Princeton Fall 2017: 15.15Hudson Valley Fall 2017: 19.19Weston Fall 2017: 19.59Cubing with the Viking 2017: 18.44Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 17.01Framingham Frozen Fingers 2018: 16.29New York City Winter 2018: 18.33Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 19.69WPI Winter Cube Day 2018: 13.77Rutgers Spring 2018: 21.74BU Spring 2018: 19.62CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 16.32CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 17.42The Battle of Lexington 2019: 18.89Empire State Fall 2019: 18.3113.7724.3924 Sep 201612 Oct 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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.12 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.77 away.

Targets move as he improves.