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Lisha Payne

3×3 · top 79.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2010 · 2010PAYN01

Lisha Payne has been competing for 16 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 42.64, set at Shaker Heights 2016, puts her in the top 79.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 48,800th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since May 2010, she has put 36 official solves on the record across four events. Her 3×3 best has come down from 58.71 in May 2010 to 42.64, a 27% improvement. Lisha has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 79.8% of 284,439 all-time
42.64
signature single · Shaker Heights 2016
36
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×342.6456.12
top 79.8%48,800 / 59,724
2×211.0318.60
top 81.6%33,829 / 40,951
Clock41.77
early days — 1 solve8,441 / 8,927
Pyraminx30.4038.78
top 98.4%28,446 / 28,708

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

Carnegie Mellon Spring 2010: 58.71Dayton Open 2010: 45.84United States National Championships 2011: 46.34Shaker Heights 2016: 42.6442.6458.711 May 201020 Feb 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-40 3×3 single — 218,634 people have one; it is 2.64 away.
  • A sub-10 2×2 single — 145,545 people have one; it is 1.03 away.

Targets move as she improves.