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Michael Coulter

3×3 · top 30.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016COUL01

Michael Coulter has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.82, set at UBC Open 2020, puts him in the top 30.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,974th in Canada. Across 20 competitions since October 2016, he has put 325 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.31 in October 2016 to 16.82, a 43% improvement. Michael has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 30.4% of 284,439 all-time
16.82
signature single · UBC Open 2020
325
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×316.8220.40
top 30.4%2,974 / 10,392
2×25.358.30
top 43.6%3,050 / 7,173
3×3 one-handed29.4937.10
top 45.5%1,044 / 2,620
4×41:37.26
top 68.8%1,975 / 3,118
Pyraminx13.2819.30
top 74.4%3,721 / 4,858
Megaminx3:38.05
top 85.5%1,106 / 1,375
5×53:42.57
top 88.9%1,261 / 1,499
Skewb20.8634.11
top 90.9%2,717 / 2,907
Clock36.831:23.70
top 91.2%928 / 1,029
6×68:32.29
early days — 1 solve650 / 665
3×3 blindfolded10:47.00
early days — 1 solve345 / 351

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

Vancouver Fall 2016: 29.31Vancouver Open Winter 2017: 23.36Vancouver Open Summer 2017: 24.24Whistler Open 2017: 22.84Vancouver Open Winter 2018: 24.08Fraser Valley Spring Open 2018: 23.34St. John's Spring Open 2018: 18.88Vancouver Select Winter 2018: 20.77UBC Open 2019: 21.28Vancouver Island 2019: 19.22Downtown Vancouver Spring 2019: 21.58Fraser Valley Spring Open 2019: 17.14Downtown Vancouver Summer 2019: 18.75Vancouver Big Cubes Open 2019: 19.93Chilliwack Cubes Fall 2019: 18.27UBC Open 2020: 16.82Downtown Vancouver Winter 2020: 18.40Nanaimo Swing into Spring 2023: 18.2816.8229.3115 Oct 201625 Mar 2023

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 1.82 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.35 away.

Targets move as he improves.