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Richard Hohls

3×3 · top 17.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014HOHL01

Richard Hohls has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.13, set at Pretoria Science Week 2015, puts him in the top 17.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 214th in South Africa. Across 6 competitions since November 2014, he has put 160 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 19% around a typical one; 98% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.90 in November 2014 to 13.13, a 43% improvement. Richard has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.9% of 284,439 all-time
13.13
signature single · Pretoria Science Week 2015
160
official solves on the record
19%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 98% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×313.1317.34
top 17.9%214 / 2,164
2×25.136.60
top 40.9%437 / 1,510
4×41:16.131:21.25
top 52.6%186 / 491
Skewb10.5515.65
top 58.3%226 / 438
Pyraminx12.1919.58
top 68.4%576 / 946
Megaminx2:57.213:13.29
top 73.2%149 / 266
3×3 one-handed1:12.471:17.01
top 90.0%367 / 467

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

Johannesburg 2014: 22.90Pops Toys Summer 2015: 17.05Tuks Open 2015: 18.81Tuks Winter 2015: 16.86Pretoria Science Week 2015: 13.13Pops Winter 2015: 14.8813.1322.9023 Nov 201429 Aug 2015

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-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.13 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.13 away.

Targets move as he improves.