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Owen Reiss

3×3 · top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2019 · 2019REIS06

Owen Reiss has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.43, set at Berkeley Winter 2024, puts him in the top 5.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,282nd in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since August 2019, he has put 143 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.74 in August 2019 to 9.43, a 50% improvement. Owen has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.43
signature single · Berkeley Winter 2024
143
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.4312.08
top 5.9%3,282 / 59,724
2×22.723.83
top 11.1%4,396 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed23.3926.50
top 29.8%3,864 / 15,683
4×455.561:05.06
top 31.4%4,962 / 19,072

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

Bay Area Speedcubin' 19 2019: 18.74SacCubing VIII 2019: 17.37Bay Area Speedcubin' 20 2019: 14.44SacCubing XI 2022: 11.88Bay Area Speedcubin' 31A - Mill Valley 2022: 12.87Bay Area Speedcubin' 50 - Berkeley 2023: 10.81Berkeley Summer 2023: 11.39Folsom Winter 2023: 12.77Berkeley Winter 2024: 9.439.4318.7418 Aug 20194 Feb 2024

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.43 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.72 away.

Targets move as he improves.