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Mercer Wajda
Pyraminx · top 15.6% of 130,891 all-time · competing since November 2022 · 2022WAJD01
Mercer Wajda has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.37, set at Algs in Ankeny 2024, puts him in the top 15.6% of the 130,891 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,154th in the United States. Across 13 competitions since November 2022, he has put 363 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 89% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.82 in November 2022 to 15.07, a 49% improvement. Mercer has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 5.37 | 9.87 | top 15.6% | 4,154 / 29,168 | |
| 2×2 | 3.61 | 5.22 | top 21.6% | 8,573 / 41,674 | |
| 3×3 | 15.07 | 19.40 | top 24.8% | 13,666 / 60,666 | |
| Skewb | 6.93 | 10.64 | top 33.2% | 5,642 / 19,164 | |
| 4×4 | 1:04.34 | 1:22.42 | top 41.1% | 6,798 / 19,354 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 31.28 | 39.86 | top 49.6% | 6,910 / 15,900 | |
| Clock | 19.97 | 27.22 | top 64.5% | 5,651 / 9,172 | |
| 5×5 | 2:28.55 | 2:38.74 | top 65.1% | 5,760 / 9,537 | |
| Square-1 | 46.37 | 1:00.06 | top 72.6% | 4,840 / 6,846 | |
| 6×6 | 5:42.56 | — | early days — 1 solve | 3,712 / 4,262 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 23 Jul 2023Three personal bests in one day at Sioux City Sunday 2023.
- 2 Jun 2023Six personal bests in one day at CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023.
- 6 May 2023First sub-20 3×3: 19.94 at Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023.
- 6 May 2023Three personal bests in one day at Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023.
- 4 Mar 2023Three personal bests in one day at Wichita Art Museum Winter 2023.
- 19 Nov 2022First competition: Iowa Fall 2022. A 29.82 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Going Fast in Grandview 2024 · 23 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Algs in Ankeny 2024 · 9 Mar 2024 — 1 personal best set
- Big Cube Battle of Waterloo 2024 · 27 Jan 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- SPAMtown II 2023 · 18 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- KCKC 3 Cubing for Cake 2023 · 21 Oct 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Minnesota Cube Day 2023 · 23 Sep 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Sioux City Sunday 2023 · 23 Jul 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Cornhusker Cubing Classic 2023 · 15 Jul 2023
- CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2023 · 2 Jun 2023 — 6 personal bests set
- Cubing for Autism Missouri 2023 · 6 May 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Wichita Art Museum Winter 2023 · 4 Mar 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- KC Krazy Cubing Winter 2023 · 11 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Iowa Fall 2022 · 19 Nov 2022
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.
- Nathan Rahn — met in 46 rounds, never finished ahead
- Lydia Workman — met in 45 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
- Shain Papalotl Longbehn — met in 42 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
Next targets
- A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,242 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
- A sub-3 2×2 single — 27,049 people have one; it is 0.61 away.
Targets move as he improves.