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Owen Wardlaw

3×3 · top 33.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2019 · 2019WARD01

Owen Wardlaw has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 17.90, set at Chula Vista Winter 2023, puts him in the top 33.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 18,809th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since January 2019, he has put 30 official solves on the record across two 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 5 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:09.71 in January 2019 to 17.90, a 74% improvement. Owen has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 33.8% of 284,439 all-time
17.90
signature single · Chula Vista Winter 2023
30
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×317.9022.38
top 33.8%18,809 / 59,724
2×28.3110.33
top 69.8%28,849 / 40,951

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' 13 2019: 1:09.71SacCubing VIII 2019: 24.78Berkeley Fall 2019: 20.70Chula Vista Winter 2023: 17.9017.901:09.7113 Jan 201914 Jan 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 2.90 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 0.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.