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Palmer Berry

3×3 · top 21.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2014 · 2014BERR01

Palmer Berry has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 14.15, set at Northeastern Spring 2016, puts her in the top 21.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11,600th in the United States. Across 25 competitions since August 2014, she has put 277 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 54% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 9 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 23.87 in August 2014 to 14.15, a 41% improvement. Palmer has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 21.5% of 284,439 all-time
14.15
signature single · Northeastern Spring 2016
277
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 54% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×314.1516.34
top 21.5%11,600 / 59,724
Pyraminx6.649.58
top 24.9%6,809 / 28,708
2×25.629.44
top 46.7%18,914 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed42.521:02.44
top 68.7%9,844 / 15,683
3×3 Fewest Moves54 moves
early days — 1 solve1,771 / 2,040

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: 23.87Harvard Fall 2014: 21.95Williams Winter 2015: 18.27Yale Spring 2015: 19.44Lexington Spring 2015: 17.75MIT Spring 2015: 16.40Melrose Spring 2015: 16.76US Nationals 2015: 16.60Norwich Summer 2015: 14.81Lexington Fall 2015: 14.50Northeastern Fall 2015: 16.65MIT Fall 2015: 15.86Melrose Winter 2016: 14.16Weston Spring 2016: 18.39MIT Spring 2016: 16.94Northeastern Spring 2016: 14.15Melrose Summer 2016: 15.01US Nationals 2016: 16.20UMass ODS Fall 2016: 16.76WPI Winter Cube Day 2017: 15.71Quabbin Spring 2017: 14.77CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 14.57BU Spring 2018: 16.74CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 14.48Return to Toronto 2019: 16.8514.1523.871 Aug 20142 Feb 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 2.15 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as she improves.