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Rob Stuart

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 8.0% of 12,294 all-time · competing since December 2011 · 2011STUA01

Rob Stuart has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 27 moves, set at MIT FMC 2014, puts him in the top 8.0% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 38th in the United Kingdom. Across 24 competitions since December 2011, he has put 423 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 96% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.09 in December 2011 to 12.28, a 36% improvement. Rob has entered 24 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 8.0% of 12,294 all-time
27 moves
signature single · MIT FMC 2014
423
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 96% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves28.67
top 8.0%38 / 372
3×312.2816.82
top 14.9%1,031 / 6,689
2×23.917.84
top 25.3%1,403 / 4,895
3×3 one-handed24.2734.56
top 32.2%584 / 1,851
4×456.991:14.56
top 33.1%742 / 2,071
Clock17.8820.37
top 58.4%755 / 1,232
5×53:03.66
top 79.3%987 / 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

MIT Fall 2011: 19.09MIT Spring 2012: 17.63Harvard Spring 2012: 17.88United States National Championships 2012: 16.68Harvard Fall 2012: 17.81MIT Fall 2012: 16.53Harvard Spring 2013: 15.18MIT Spring 2013: 12.77World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 16.26Harvard Fall 2013: 18.21Lexington Fall 2013: 13.09Shepparton Autumn 2014: 15.90Lexington Spring 2014: 17.75Caltech Spring Open 2014: 14.80US Nationals 2014: 15.96Harvard Fall 2014: 15.75Lexington Fall 2014: 12.94Edinburgh Spring 2015: 14.84MIT Spring 2015: 12.28Lexington Fall 2015: 16.43Sharon Winter 2016: 15.51World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 14.7412.2819.0917 Dec 201113 Jul 2017

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 0.28 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.