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Robert Hicks

3×3 · top 14.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014HICK02

Robert Hicks has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.30, set at UK Championship 2016, puts him in the top 14.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,037th in the United Kingdom. Across 5 competitions since November 2014, he has put 43 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.89 in November 2014 to 12.30, a 61% improvement. Robert has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 14.9% of 284,439 all-time
12.30
signature single · UK Championship 2016
43
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×312.3016.63
top 14.9%1,037 / 6,689
2×27.317.86
top 62.9%3,229 / 4,895

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

UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 31.89Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 19.41Welwyn Garden City 2015: 17.12Exeter Open 2016: 13.35UK Championship 2016: 12.3012.3031.891 Nov 20144 Nov 2016

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 0.30 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 1.31 away.

Targets move as he improves.