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Michael Maurer

3×3 · top 22.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2011 · 2011MAUR01

Michael Maurer has been competing for 16 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.33, set at Lake Country Fall 2019, puts him in the top 22.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,958th in the United States. Across 4 competitions since January 2011, he has put 57 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Michael has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 22.1% of 284,439 all-time
14.33
signature single · Lake Country Fall 2019
57
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×314.3314.94
top 22.1%11,958 / 59,724
2×25.596.53
top 46.4%18,766 / 40,951
4×41:56.612:09.66
top 80.1%14,864 / 19,072
Pyraminx20.5724.12
top 93.6%27,361 / 28,708

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

UIUC Spring 2011: 15.69Winona Open 2013: 49.27Cubetcha 2013: 48.00Lake Country Fall 2019: 14.3314.3349.2729 Jan 201120 Oct 2019

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 2.33 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.