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Leif Baker

3×3 · top 25.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015BAKE01

Leif Baker has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.36, set at Oregon State Alpha 2016, puts him in the top 25.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,955th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since January 2015, he has put 99 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 54.55 in January 2015 to 15.36, a 72% improvement. Leif has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 25.6% of 284,439 all-time
15.36
signature single · Oregon State Alpha 2016
99
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×315.3619.84
top 25.6%13,955 / 59,724
2×25.637.10
top 46.8%18,956 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed30.9139.62
top 48.7%6,670 / 15,683
4×41:16.141:39.32
top 52.6%8,923 / 19,072
5×52:33.952:57.46
top 67.6%5,914 / 9,401
Skewb15.6617.47
top 80.3%15,373 / 18,907
6×66:15.01
early days — 1 solve3,832 / 4,196

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

Rose City Cubing Competition 2015: 54.55Cubes4Speed MOX Summer 2015: 27.21Keep Portland Weird 2015: 20.39PDX Cubing Beta 2015: 16.10Oregon State Alpha 2016: 15.36US Nationals 2016: 19.3715.3654.5531 Jan 201529 Jul 2016

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.36 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.63 away.

Targets move as he improves.