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Mark Rivers

3×3 Multi-Blind · top 7.7% of 4,268 all-time · competing since August 2015 · 2015RIVE05

Mark Rivers has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3 Multi-Blind: a personal-best single of 18 of 20 cubes · 59:41, set at UK Championship 2019, puts him in the top 7.7% of the 4,268 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18th in the United Kingdom. Across 38 competitions since August 2015, he has put 721 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 66% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.05 in August 2015 to 15.17, an 11% improvement. Mark has entered 38 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Multi-Blind
best event — top 7.7% of 4,268 all-time
18 of 20 cubes · 59:41
signature single · UK Championship 2019
721
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 66% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 Multi-Blind18 of 20 cubes · 59:41—
top 7.7%18 / 126
3×3 blindfolded48.651:00.47
top 9.4%46 / 311
4×4 blindfolded4:47.535:56.60
top 20.6%30 / 84
3×315.1718.70
top 25.0%1,657 / 6,689
4×451.291:05.20
top 26.3%589 / 2,071
2×24.026.89
top 26.7%1,465 / 4,895
5×5 blindfolded13:17.00—
top 34.2%21 / 50
5×51:53.602:00.55
top 45.1%559 / 1,151
3×3 Fewest Moves41 moves44.67
top 51.8%210 / 372
Clock17.1519.46
top 56.0%727 / 1,232
3×3 one-handed46.611:00.99
top 73.4%1,308 / 1,851
Pyraminx14.2418.95
top 78.9%3,067 / 3,656
6×65:25.12—
top 86.0%498 / 548
7×79:57.19—
early days — 1 solve447 / 459

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

The Glorious North 2015: 17.05August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 22.04Cuthberts Open 2015: 17.88UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 18.81Welcome Thay Cambridge 2015: 19.18Manchester Open 2016: 17.22Exeter Open 2016: 15.64North London Open 2016: 17.14Macclesfield Open 2016: 18.28August Bank Holiday Competition 2016: 17.12Guildford Open 2016: 17.50UK Championship 2016: 16.19Newcastle-under-Lyme Open 2017: 17.21Crawley Open 2017: 20.44World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 16.91August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 18.25UK Championship 2017: 16.19High Wycombe Open 2018: 18.30UK Championship 2018: 15.17UK Championship 2019: 18.96Chester Spring 2022: 17.1015.1722.041 Aug 201514 May 2022

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-40 3×3 blindfolded single — 826 people have one; it is 8.65 away.
  • A sub-3:00 4×4 blindfolded single — 172 people have one; it is 1:47.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.