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Sander Joa

3×3 · top 0.94% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016JOAS01

Sander Joa has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.60, set at Sandnes Open 2018, puts him in the top 0.94% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 19th in Norway. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since September 2016, he has put 219 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 97% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.69 in September 2016 to 6.60, a 63% improvement. Sander has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.94% of 284,439 all-time
6.60
signature single · Sandnes Open 2018
219
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 97% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingNorway
3×36.6010.87
top 0.94%19 / 1,609
2×22.064.91
top 5.2%77 / 1,202
4×443.0346.45
top 15.8%79 / 590
5×51:28.001:36.58
top 25.7%64 / 318
3×3 one-handed22.5325.90
top 27.4%130 / 513
Skewb7.2712.79
top 35.8%220 / 531
Pyraminx8.0410.49
top 36.5%342 / 865
6×63:14.963:35.48
early days — 3 solves52 / 136
Megaminx2:46.733:33.72
top 68.9%160 / 262
3×3 Fewest Moves55 moves
early days — 1 solve108 / 117

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

Sandnes Open 2016: 17.69Norwegian Championship 2017: 10.83Sandnes Open 2017: 9.16Sandnes Open 2018: 6.606.6017.6917 Sep 201622 Sep 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.60 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.