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Owen Gross

2×2 · top 18.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since June 2015 · 2015GROS04

Owen Gross has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.37, set at Queen City 2016, puts him in the top 18.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,294th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since June 2015, he has put 61 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 37.38 in July 2015 to 16.70, a 55% improvement. Owen has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 18.6% of 186,767 all-time
3.37
signature single · Queen City 2016
61
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×23.376.41
top 18.6%7,294 / 40,951
Pyraminx6.808.52
top 26.2%7,189 / 28,708
Skewb6.4412.32
top 29.2%4,791 / 18,907
3×316.7020.35
top 30.1%16,517 / 59,724

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

Michigan 2015: 37.38Cubic Catastrophe 2015: 23.28Michigan Cubing Club Delta 2015: 18.84Queen City 2016: 16.7016.7037.3810 Jul 20159 Jan 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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.