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Matthew Wanstall

3×3 · top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2010 · 2010WANS01

Matthew Wanstall has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.63, set at Australian Nationals 2010, puts him in the top 9.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 829th in Australia. Until August 2006, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since January 2010, he has put 197 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Matthew has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 9.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.63
signature single · Australian Nationals 2010
197
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×310.6312.70
top 9.4%829 / 11,709
2×23.095.38
top 15.3%1,169 / 8,567
3×3 blindfolded1:42.31
top 27.5%131 / 394
Pyraminx7.0914.42
top 28.6%1,481 / 5,993
3×3 one-handed27.0329.56
top 39.4%908 / 2,659
4×41:06.411:12.71
top 43.3%1,155 / 3,051
5×51:55.532:19.23
top 46.3%624 / 1,356
Square-130.0234.07
top 49.4%483 / 899
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 3 cubes · 14:05
early days — 1 solve146 / 180

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

Melbourne Summer Open 2010: 10.83Melbourne Winter Open 2010: 11.55Australian Nationals 2010: 10.63Melbourne Summer Open 2011: 11.9310.6311.9330 Jan 201029 Jan 2011

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.

  • Feliks Zemdegs — met in 48 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Nick Pappas — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
  • Tim Major — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead 24 times

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.63 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.