People · United Kingdom
Mark Skelton
3×3 Fewest Moves · top 12.2% of 12,418 all-time · competing since August 2013 · 2013SKEL01
Mark Skelton has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 29 moves, set at ABHC 2014, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 12,418 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 56th in the United Kingdom. Across 9 competitions since August 2013, he has put 175 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.48 in August 2013 to 12.48, a 32% improvement. Mark has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United Kingdom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 Fewest Moves | 29 moves | 31.67 | top 12.2% | 56 / 372 | |
| 3×3 | 12.48 | 14.23 | top 15.6% | 1,084 / 6,785 | |
| 2×2 | 7.26 | 11.59 | top 62.5% | 3,244 / 4,946 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 41.75 | 50.22 | top 67.8% | 1,175 / 1,861 | |
| Pyraminx | 13.06 | 21.89 | top 73.3% | 2,901 / 3,704 | |
| 4×4 | 1:59.40 | — | top 81.5% | 1,877 / 2,112 | |
| 5×5 | 3:16.57 | — | top 83.2% | 1,056 / 1,167 | |
| Megaminx | 4:03.46 | — | top 90.6% | 970 / 998 | |
| Skewb | 25.68 | 36.64 | top 95.3% | 2,361 / 2,439 | |
| Square-1 | 1:37.46 | — | top 96.5% | 776 / 789 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 20 Dec 2014Five personal bests in one day at Oxford Winter 2014.
- 23 Aug 2014Five personal bests in one day at ABHC 2014.
- 22 Feb 2014First sub-15 3×3: 14.33 at Nottingham Open 2014.
- 24 Aug 2013First competition: Guildford Open 2013. A 18.48 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- FMC Europe 2015 · 28 Mar 2015
- Harrow Spring 2015 · 28 Feb 2015 — 1 personal best set
- Oxford Winter 2014 · 20 Dec 2014 — 5 personal bests set
- ABHC 2014 · 23 Aug 2014 — 5 personal bests set
- Welcome To Cambridge 2014 · 12 Jul 2014 — 1 personal best set
- Welwyn Garden City Open 2014 · 5 Apr 2014
- Nottingham Open 2014 · 22 Feb 2014 — 2 personal bests set
- UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013 · 16 Nov 2013 — 2 personal bests set
- Guildford Open 2013 · 24 Aug 2013
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.
- Robert Yau — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Callum Hales-Jepp — met in 49 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Daniel Sheppard — met in 49 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 40,277 people have one; it is 0.48 away.
- A sub-6 2×2 single — 96,384 people have one; it is 1.26 away.
Targets move as he improves.