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Ryan Lee

3×3 · top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2013 · 2013LEER01

Ryan Lee has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.61, set at Berkeley Spring 2017, puts him in the top 6.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,539th in the United States. Until November 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 22 competitions since November 2013, he has put 348 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.72 in November 2013 to 9.61, a 54% improvement. Ryan has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.4% of 284,439 all-time
9.61
signature single · Berkeley Spring 2017
348
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.6111.66
top 6.4%3,539 / 59,724
2×22.896.02
top 13.0%5,116 / 40,951
Square-114.3619.61
top 14.9%1,008 / 6,743
3×3 one-handed18.3524.72
top 16.0%2,061 / 15,683
3×3 blindfolded1:33.152:32.17
top 24.3%494 / 2,092
4×455.551:03.56
top 31.4%4,956 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves
early days — 3 solves1,251 / 2,040
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 11:17
early days — 1 solve490 / 731
5×52:41.60
early days — 2 solves6,272 / 9,401
Megaminx3:16.37
early days — 2 solves6,293 / 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

Caltech Fall Open 2013: 20.72Caltech Spring Open 2014: 13.50Caltech Fall Open 2014: 15.72Irvine Fall 2015: 14.07Caltech Fall 2015: 13.41Caltech Winter 2016: 14.23St. Francis II: GYM 2016: 13.60SoCal Supercomp 2016: 14.62Berkeley Summer 2016: 11.23Hayward Rubik's Rumble 2016: 12.09Berkeley Fall 2016: 14.58Armin Open 2017: 10.62Berkeley Winter 2017: 12.31Berkeley Spring 2017: 9.61Nisei Week 2017: 11.79Berkeley Summer 2017: 10.83Berkeley Fall 2017: 9.81Berkeley Winter 2018: 10.79Bay Area Speedcubin' 11 2018: 10.329.6120.7216 Nov 201318 Mar 2018

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.

  • Ryan Jew — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 17 times
  • Jacob Posner — met in 56 rounds, finished ahead 13 times
  • Riley Woo — met in 47 rounds, finished ahead 5 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.61 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.89 away.

Targets move as he improves.