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Matthew Kauppi

3×3 · top 33.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019KAUP01

Matthew Kauppi has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.66, set at VES Spring 2019, puts him in the top 33.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18,340th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since January 2019, he has put 84 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Matthew has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 33.1% of 284,439 all-time
17.66
signature single · VES Spring 2019
84
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×317.6618.86
top 33.1%18,340 / 59,724
2×25.215.57
top 41.9%16,848 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed37.8743.34
top 62.2%8,773 / 15,683
Skewb12.1815.27
top 66.9%12,509 / 18,907
Pyraminx13.1215.75
top 73.5%21,799 / 28,708
4×41:53.07
early days — 3 solves14,454 / 19,072

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

Gobbler Cube Day Winter 2019: 18.09VES Spring 2019: 17.66ODU Big Blue Spring 2019: 17.91MLWGS Spring 2019: 19.3217.6619.3219 Jan 201913 Apr 2019

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 2.66 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.