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Ricky Bailey

3×3 · top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2014 · 2014BAIL01

Ricky Bailey has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.93, set at The Glorious North 2015, puts him in the top 17.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,158th in the United Kingdom. Across 7 competitions since May 2014, he has put 181 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.46 in May 2014 to 12.93, a 34% improvement. Ricky has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 17.2% of 284,439 all-time
12.93
signature single · The Glorious North 2015
181
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×312.9316.29
top 17.2%1,158 / 6,689
2×23.605.00
top 21.4%1,207 / 4,895
Pyraminx6.258.95
top 21.8%856 / 3,656
4×41:05.631:11.63
top 42.5%918 / 2,071
3×3 one-handed30.2237.14
top 47.1%830 / 1,851
3×3 blindfolded3:29.44
early days — 3 solves224 / 311
5×52:32.42
top 66.9%821 / 1,151

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

Oxford Open 2014: 19.46UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 15.18Oxford Winter 2014: 14.97Harrow Spring 2015: 16.02The Glorious North 2015: 12.9312.9319.4617 May 20141 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.

  • James Molloy — met in 41 rounds, finished ahead 8 times
  • Robert Yau — met in 39 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Jialin Zhou — met in 36 rounds, finished ahead 3 times

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.93 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.60 away.

Targets move as he improves.