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Lucian Erasmus

3×3 · top 12.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018ERAS01

Lucian Erasmus has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 11.62, set at Cape Town Summer 2020, puts him in the top 12.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 139th in South Africa. Across 4 competitions since April 2018, he has put 84 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 21.02 in April 2018 to 11.62, a 45% improvement. Lucian has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 12.6% of 284,439 all-time
11.62
signature single · Cape Town Summer 2020
84
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×311.6213.63
top 12.6%139 / 2,164
4×41:10.801:13.13
top 47.7%165 / 491
Pyraminx10.1314.67
top 54.0%432 / 946
2×26.889.02
top 59.4%683 / 1,510
Skewb13.2117.81
top 71.6%280 / 438

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

Speedcubes Cape Town 2018: 21.02Speedcubes Cape Town 2019: 14.58Cape Town Spring 2019: 13.06Cape Town Summer 2020: 11.6211.6221.029 Apr 201814 Mar 2020

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.62 away.
  • A sub-1:00 4×4 single — 30,601 people have one; it is 10.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.