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Liam Power

2×2 · top 11.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2017 · 2017POWE04

Liam Power has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.75, set at Kunshan Open 2019, puts him in the top 11.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 227th in New Zealand. Across 3 competitions since May 2017, he has put 107 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 2×2 best has come down from 3.36 in May 2017 to 2.75, an 18% improvement. Liam has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 11.5% of 186,767 all-time
2.75
signature single · Kunshan Open 2019
107
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNew Zealand
2×22.754.86
top 11.5%227 / 1,615
3×311.8615.19
top 13.4%278 / 2,095
Pyraminx5.068.62
top 13.5%192 / 1,141
4×41:02.571:14.15
top 39.2%249 / 722
3×3 one-handed30.3232.80
top 47.4%266 / 600
Square-131.8743.59
top 53.0%148 / 251
Skewb11.6913.91
top 64.5%450 / 666
Megaminx3:22.96
early days — 1 solve250 / 283
5×53:29.58
early days — 2 solves303 / 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

Techweek NZ 2017: 3.36Hamilton Spring 2017: 3.16Kunshan Open 2019: 2.752.753.3613 May 201720 Apr 2019

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.86 away.

Targets move as he improves.