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Matthew Hendricks

2×2 · top 3.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2015 · 2015HEND03

Matthew Hendricks has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.79, set at AZCubing Hamilton Fall 2017, puts him in the top 3.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,386th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since June 2015, he has put 315 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 30.13 in June 2015 to 11.68, a 61% improvement. Matthew has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.5% of 186,767 all-time
1.79
signature single · AZCubing Hamilton Fall 2017
315
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.794.22
top 3.5%1,386 / 40,951
3×311.6814.54
top 12.8%6,848 / 59,724
Skewb5.088.85
top 18.8%2,988 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed28.3931.55
top 42.9%5,773 / 15,683
4×41:13.751:21.37
top 50.5%8,511 / 19,072
Pyraminx9.8814.47
top 52.1%15,161 / 28,708
5×52:41.143:32.59
top 70.9%6,246 / 9,401

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

SoCal Supercomp 2015: 30.13Dallas Back to School 2015: 22.69Irvine Fall 2015: 23.30AZCubing Fall 2015: 20.30Caltech Fall 2015: 18.33Nub Open 2016: 16.46AZCubing Winter 2016: 15.99Newport Spring 2016: 16.16St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 18.17AZCubing Spring 2016: 13.94SoCal Supercomp 2016: 16.66AZCubing Fall 2016: 14.12OCSEF Open 2017: 13.34CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 13.97AZCubing Summer 2017: 13.63AZCubing Hamilton Fall 2017: 11.68CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 12.0511.6830.1327 Jun 201527 Jul 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 his.

  • Dan Tran — met in 41 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Caleb Hoffman — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Ivan Vanek — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 4 times

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.68 away.

Targets move as he improves.