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Rayhan Cote

2×2 · top 1.8% of 186,767 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016COTE01

Rayhan Cote has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.42, set at NovaCube 2018, puts him in the top 1.8% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 721st in the United States. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since September 2016, he has put 278 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 29.91 in September 2016 to 12.12, a 59% improvement. Rayhan has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.8% of 186,767 all-time
1.42
signature single · NovaCube 2018
278
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×21.424.93
top 1.8%721 / 40,951
3×312.1216.18
top 14.3%7,652 / 59,724
Skewb7.2412.55
top 35.5%6,026 / 18,907
Pyraminx12.98
early days — 3 solves21,571 / 28,708

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

Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 29.91TJHSST Fall 2016: 28.41ODU Big Blue Winter 2016: 30.60Virginia Open Winter 2017: 28.17ODU Big Blue Spring 2017: 21.87Virginia Open Spring 2017: 23.82NovaCube 2017: 25.82EZ Cubes Spring 2017: 22.03Slow N Steady Summer 2017: 24.14Severna Park Summer 2017: 22.81Rally In The Valley 2017: 19.54Maryland 2017: 19.90TJHSST Fall 2017: 18.64Severna Park Showdown 2017: 17.66Northern Neck Winter 2018: 15.29NovaCube 2018: 17.16ODU Big Blue Spring 2018: 15.31River Hill Spring 2018: 15.36WFS Cubing Spring 2018: 12.12RVA Spring 2018: 17.16Tea Time Spring 2018: 14.71CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 15.72Rally In The Valley 2018: 14.90Maryland 2018: 13.78Fredericksburg Summer Open 2018: 14.5712.1230.6024 Sep 201621 Jul 2018

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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.