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Ryan Lewis

3×3 · top 7.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2017 · 2017LEWI06

Ryan Lewis has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.88, set at Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024, puts him in the top 7.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 3,920th in the United States. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since October 2017, he has put 170 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.96 in October 2017 to 9.88, a 71% improvement. Ryan has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 7.1% of 284,439 all-time
9.88
signature single · Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024
170
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×39.8811.62
top 7.1%3,920 / 59,724
4×435.9852.74
top 7.7%1,173 / 19,072
Pyraminx5.386.84
top 15.6%4,105 / 28,708
Skewb4.7711.58
top 16.4%2,593 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed21.0429.71
top 23.3%2,996 / 15,683
2×24.746.64
top 36.0%14,380 / 40,951
Megaminx2:20.07
early days — 2 solves4,238 / 7,841
5×52:23.28
early days — 2 solves5,421 / 9,401

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

Maryland 2017: 33.96Incredible Pencil Mania 2018: 15.26No Place For DNF Spring 2018: 21.49First State 2018: 11.84Slow N Steady Summer 2018: 11.47Penn Cube Day Fall 2018: 11.98Lower Moreland Winter 2019: 11.66Arcadia Summer 2019: 11.20Slow N Steady UMD Fall 2024: 9.889.8833.967 Oct 20179 Nov 2024

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.88 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 5.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.