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Ryan Acheson

3×3 · top 14.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016ACHE02

Ryan Acheson has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.13, set at Atomic Fools 2017, puts him in the top 14.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,670th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since August 2016, he has put 151 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 19.06 in August 2016 to 12.13, a 36% improvement. Ryan has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 14.3% of 284,439 all-time
12.13
signature single · Atomic Fools 2017
151
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.1315.44
top 14.3%7,670 / 59,724
Pyraminx5.416.33
top 15.8%4,184 / 28,708
2×24.855.44
top 37.4%14,953 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed27.1631.18
top 39.8%5,292 / 15,683
4×41:09.731:13.29
top 46.6%7,757 / 19,072
Megaminx2:02.012:25.67
top 46.8%3,460 / 7,841
5×52:08.602:17.96
top 54.6%4,613 / 9,401
Square-138.1740.58
top 63.0%4,156 / 6,743
6×64:43.19
top 78.0%3,101 / 4,196
7×78:10.89
early days — 3 solves2,882 / 3,184

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

Oregon 2016: 19.06Puget Sound Fall 2016: 16.31Puget Sound Winter 2017: 14.65Atomic Fools 2017: 12.13SnoCo Cubing Summer 2017: 13.45Spokane Valley Summer 2017: 13.3912.1319.0627 Aug 201626 Aug 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 0.13 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.41 away.

Targets move as he improves.