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Maria Steele

3×3 · top 29.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since March 2017 · 2017STEE02

Maria Steele has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.57, set at Central Arkansas Summer 2018, puts her in the top 29.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 16,271st in the United States. Across 5 competitions since March 2017, she has put 91 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 37.73 in March 2017 to 16.57, a 56% improvement. Maria has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 29.6% of 284,439 all-time
16.57
signature single · Central Arkansas Summer 2018
91
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.5720.43
top 29.6%16,271 / 59,724
Skewb7.649.55
top 38.6%6,623 / 18,907
4×41:09.271:28.51
top 46.1%7,670 / 19,072
2×25.846.96
top 49.2%19,988 / 40,951
Pyraminx9.6114.31
top 49.9%14,482 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed49.34
early days — 2 solves11,089 / 15,683

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

Qualifornia 2017: 37.73Cubing 4 Kids 2018: 17.16Gateway Ravioli Spring 2018: 17.58Central Arkansas Summer 2018: 16.57Respect Kansas 2018: 16.9616.5737.7325 Mar 20173 Nov 2018

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.57 away.
  • A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 1.64 away.

Targets move as she improves.