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Riley Purdom

3×3 · top 50.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018PURD01

Riley Purdom has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 24.23, set at CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019, puts him in the top 50.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 29,717th in the United States. Across 3 competitions since April 2018, he has put 50 official solves on the record across six events. Riley has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 50.9% of 284,439 all-time
24.23
signature single · CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019
50
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×324.2328.26
top 50.9%29,717 / 59,724
2×26.477.79
top 55.7%22,768 / 40,951
Pyraminx12.5814.95
top 70.6%20,925 / 28,708
4×41:42.35
early days — 2 solves13,019 / 19,072
Skewb14.4417.11
top 76.4%14,531 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed1:23.57
early days — 2 solves14,437 / 15,683

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

CubingUSA Southern Championship 2018: 25.46Dallas Fort Worth 2018: 33.12CubingUSA Southern Championship 2019: 24.2324.2333.1227 Apr 20181 Jun 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 his.

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 4.23 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.