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Max Boettinger

3×3 · top 16.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since February 2014 · 2014BOET01

Max Boettinger has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.80, set at Princeton Winter 2016, puts him in the top 16.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 8,957th in the United States. Across 11 competitions since February 2014, he has put 171 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 76% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.84 in February 2014 to 12.80, a 57% improvement. Max has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 16.7% of 284,439 all-time
12.80
signature single · Princeton Winter 2016
171
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 76% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.8015.61
top 16.7%8,957 / 59,724
Square-117.5220.88
top 22.2%1,466 / 6,743
Pyraminx6.3810.48
top 22.9%6,176 / 28,708
2×23.814.05
top 24.1%9,441 / 40,951
4×41:08.001:14.71
top 44.9%7,451 / 19,072
Skewb10.1214.62
top 55.7%10,116 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed47.66
early days — 3 solves10,796 / 15,683

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

River Hill Winter 2014: 29.84River Hill Summer 2014: 19.43Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 19.11River Hill Fall 2015: 16.04Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 16.11Princeton Winter 2016: 12.80Severna Park Spring 2016: 13.03Severna Park Fall 2016: 17.06Slow N Steady Spring 2017: 15.78Maryland 2017: 14.22Severna Park Showdown 2017: 15.3912.8029.848 Feb 201416 Dec 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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.80 away.
  • A sub-15 Square-1 single — 4,160 people have one; it is 2.52 away.

Targets move as he improves.