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Nicolas Browning

Pyraminx · top 17.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014BROW05

Nicolas Browning has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.69, set at Music City Winter 2016, puts him in the top 17.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,697th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since August 2014, he has put 98 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.71 in August 2014 to 13.53, a 60% improvement. Nicolas has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 17.7% of 129,321 all-time
5.69
signature single · Music City Winter 2016
98
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
Pyraminx5.699.43
top 17.7%4,697 / 28,708
3×313.5314.96
top 19.3%10,376 / 59,724
2×23.984.30
top 26.2%10,343 / 40,951
4×41:21.471:25.91
top 57.1%9,844 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed45.601:09.91
top 72.2%10,428 / 15,683
Skewb17.6321.16
top 85.4%16,441 / 18,907

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

US Nationals 2014: 33.71Indiana 2014: 27.94Music City Winter 2016: 16.34Athens Winter 2016: 13.53Rocket City 2017: 13.8913.5333.711 Aug 20148 Apr 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-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.69 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.