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Marcus Ryan

3×3 · top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017RYAN04

Marcus Ryan has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.58, set at Fortitude Sydney 2019, puts him in the top 3.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 372nd in Australia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since June 2017, he has put 234 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 57% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.73 in June 2017 to 8.58, a 59% improvement. Marcus has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.58
signature single · Fortitude Sydney 2019
234
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 57% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×38.5811.57
top 3.9%372 / 11,709
2×22.194.19
top 6.1%442 / 8,567
3×3 one-handed17.6021.38
top 14.1%318 / 2,659
4×447.9957.33
top 22.1%555 / 3,051
Skewb5.807.13
top 24.2%645 / 3,534
Pyraminx7.048.28
top 28.2%1,467 / 5,993

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

Sydney Winter 2017: 20.73Australian Nationals 2017: 17.24Sydney Championship 2017: 13.62Warm Up Sydney 2018: 13.16Australian Nationals 2018: 11.85Koalafication Sydney 2019: 10.94WCA World Championship 2019: 10.24Fortitude Sydney 2019: 8.58Odd Day in Sydney 2019: 9.878.5820.7317 Jun 201710 Nov 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.

  • Luc Harvey — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 22 times
  • Matthew Cook — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead twice
  • Edbert Sim — met in 37 rounds, finished ahead 15 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.58 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.19 away.

Targets move as he improves.