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Ryan Thompson

2×2 · top 5.4% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016THOM11

Ryan Thompson has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.09, set at Yakima Valley Cubing Spring 2019, puts him in the top 5.4% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,134th in the United States. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 17 competitions since May 2016, he has put 271 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.61 in May 2016 to 12.43, a 47% improvement. Ryan has entered 17 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 5.4% of 186,767 all-time
2.09
signature single · Yakima Valley Cubing Spring 2019
271
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.094.63
top 5.4%2,134 / 40,951
3×312.4315.94
top 15.4%8,237 / 59,724
Pyraminx7.8412.75
top 34.9%9,854 / 28,708
4×41:04.931:14.83
top 41.7%6,837 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed38.7543.58
top 63.5%8,977 / 15,683
Megaminx4:11.96
early days — 2 solves7,378 / 7,841
Square-11:33.55
early days — 1 solve6,507 / 6,743

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

Rose City 2016: 23.61Atomic Cubing Summer 2016: 23.39Atomic Fools 2017: 23.44Rose City 2017: 23.30Spokane Valley Summer 2017: 22.06Atomic Cubing Fall 2017: 20.15Chiawana Cubing 2018: 17.90Atomic Cubing Spring 2018: 18.38SnoCo Summer 2018: 17.66Yakima Valley Cubing Fall 2018: 16.49Atomic Cubing Fall 2018: 16.77Atomic Cubing Spring 2019: 14.42Yakima Valley Cubing Spring 2019: 12.43Spokane Summer 2019: 18.20Yakima Side Events 2019: 15.87Washington Championship 2020: 14.90Central Washington Winter 2020: 13.5012.4323.6121 May 201622 Feb 2020

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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.09 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.43 away.

Targets move as he improves.