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Max Isom

3×3 · top 40.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2015 · 2015ISOM01

Max Isom has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.08, set at AZCubing Spring 2016, puts him in the top 40.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 22,807th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since November 2015, he has put 66 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.38 in November 2015 to 20.08, a 36% improvement. Max has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 40.2% of 284,439 all-time
20.08
signature single · AZCubing Spring 2016
66
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×320.0824.63
top 40.2%22,807 / 59,724
2×25.826.95
top 49.0%19,875 / 40,951
Pyraminx12.6417.34
top 71.0%21,022 / 28,708
4×41:59.77
top 81.6%15,199 / 19,072
Skewb16.2119.91
top 81.9%15,698 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed1:20.75
early days — 2 solves14,275 / 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

AZCubing Fall 2015: 31.38AZCubing Winter 2016: 20.46AZCubing Spring 2016: 20.08AZCubing Summer 2016: 23.1920.0831.387 Nov 20156 Aug 2016

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.08 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.82 away.

Targets move as he improves.