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Ryan Arnold

3×3 · top 25.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016ARNO03

Ryan Arnold has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.37, set at Empire State Fall 2019, puts him in the top 25.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,980th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since September 2016, he has put 75 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.77 in September 2016 to 15.37, a 40% improvement. Ryan has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 25.7% of 284,439 all-time
15.37
signature single · Empire State Fall 2019
75
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×315.3720.54
top 25.7%13,980 / 59,724
2×24.365.92
top 31.1%12,385 / 40,951
Pyraminx8.4011.22
top 39.7%11,340 / 28,708
4×41:12.08
top 48.9%8,175 / 19,072
Skewb9.2515.15
top 50.1%8,975 / 18,907
Square-136.8246.74
top 61.0%4,024 / 6,743
5×52:42.46
top 71.5%6,309 / 9,401
Megaminx3:43.09
early days — 2 solves6,951 / 7,841

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

Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 25.77Hudson Valley Open Fall 2016: 26.76New York City Winter 2017: 20.96Hudson Valley Spring 2017: 22.43Quabbin Summer 2019: 16.43Empire State Fall 2019: 15.3715.3726.7624 Sep 201612 Oct 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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.37 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.