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Simon Crawford

3×3 · top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2008 · 2008CRAW01

Simon Crawford has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.65, set at The Glorious North 2015, puts him in the top 2.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 173rd in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 26 competitions since November 2008, he has put 1,558 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 85% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 14.30 in November 2008 to 7.65, a 47% improvement. Simon has entered 26 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.2% of 284,439 all-time
7.65
signature single · The Glorious North 2015
1,558
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 85% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×37.659.49
top 2.2%173 / 6,689
Square-19.1510.97
top 4.7%46 / 778
2×22.253.97
top 6.6%469 / 4,895
4×435.6041.22
top 7.3%179 / 2,071
3×3 one-handed15.2118.99
top 8.6%172 / 1,851
5×51:21.511:34.05
top 20.3%267 / 1,151
3×3 Fewest Moves33 moves—
top 23.4%108 / 372

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

UK Open 2008: 14.30UK Masters 2009: 13.38UK Open 2009: 10.94Bristol Open 2009: 12.30Bristol Spring 2010: 10.44UK Open 2010: 10.91Guildford Summer Open 2011: 10.93UK Open 2011: 9.88Weston-super-Mare 2012: 9.65European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 9.78UK Open 2012: 9.86Leicester Open 2013: 10.00Nottingham Open 2013: 9.40Cambridge Open 2013: 9.06Cuthberts Open 2013: 8.00UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 9.52Nottingham Open 2014: 8.58Nottingham Summer 2014: 8.80Welcome To Cambridge 2014: 8.97Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 9.10UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 8.92Edinburgh Spring 2015: 8.57The Glorious North 2015: 7.65UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 8.45Macclesfield Open 2016: 8.22UK Championship 2017: 9.187.6514.308 Nov 200827 Oct 2017

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.

  • Robert Yau — met in 275 rounds, finished ahead 48 times
  • Joey Gouly — met in 263 rounds, finished ahead 179 times
  • Daniel Sheppard — met in 251 rounds, finished ahead 144 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.65 away.
  • A sub-8 Square-1 single — 766 people have one; it is 1.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.