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Ryley Festa

2×2 · top 12.2% of 186,767 all-time · competing since January 2023 · 2023FEST01

Ryley Festa has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.82, set at Ridgefield Spring 2024, puts him in the top 12.2% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,805th in the United States. Across 8 competitions since January 2023, he has put 176 official solves on the record across seven 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. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.02 in January 2023 to 16.22, a 19% improvement. Ryley has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 12.2% of 186,767 all-time
2.82
signature single · Ridgefield Spring 2024
176
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
2×22.825.94
top 12.2%4,805 / 40,951
Pyraminx5.9611.00
top 19.7%5,259 / 28,708
3×316.2219.47
top 28.5%15,618 / 59,724
Clock14.5616.70
top 46.1%3,722 / 8,927
4×41:13.561:20.14
top 50.3%8,472 / 19,072
Skewb9.3110.84
top 50.6%9,052 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed39.3845.37
top 64.4%9,138 / 15,683

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

Mum's the Word 2023: 20.02Middleboro Cubikon 2023: 22.39CubingUSA New England Championship 2023: 16.73Hudson Valley 2023: 16.65Connecticut Winter 2024: 16.22Ridgefield Spring 2024: 18.12Mystic Cubikon 2024: 18.56Amherst Fall 2024: 16.7916.2222.398 Jan 202323 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.82 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.96 away.

Targets move as he improves.