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Matthew Jenson

3×3 · top 6.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2015 · 2015JENS03

Matthew Jenson has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.57, set at Minnesota Cube Melt 2017, puts him in the top 6.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,472nd in the United States. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 5 competitions since May 2015, he has put 120 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.16 in May 2015 to 9.57, a 41% improvement. Matthew has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.3% of 284,439 all-time
9.57
signature single · Minnesota Cube Melt 2017
120
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.5711.43
top 6.3%3,472 / 59,724
2×22.414.09
top 8.0%3,178 / 40,951
Skewb4.829.96
top 16.8%2,661 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed21.7727.56
top 25.4%3,270 / 15,683
4×41:00.781:05.38
top 37.3%6,026 / 19,072
Pyraminx9.8810.45
top 52.1%15,161 / 28,708
5×52:07.792:15.34
top 54.1%4,581 / 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

Minnesota Cube Melt 2015: 16.16Dixon Summer 2015: 11.23Wiscube 2nd Edition 2015: 11.77Cubetcha 2015: 9.72Minnesota Cube Melt 2017: 9.579.5716.169 May 20156 May 2017

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.57 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.