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Simon Oates

3×3 · top 41.7% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022OATE01

Simon Oates has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 20.62, set at Stevenage Summer 2022, puts him in the top 41.7% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,884th in the United Kingdom. Across 3 competitions since April 2022, he has put 66 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.65 in April 2022 to 20.62, a 20% improvement. Simon has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 41.7% of 284,439 all-time
20.62
signature single · Stevenage Summer 2022
66
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×320.6223.62
top 41.7%2,884 / 6,689
Pyraminx12.2515.62
top 68.7%2,680 / 3,656
2×28.159.42
top 68.8%3,537 / 4,895
Skewb12.8019.16
top 69.8%1,701 / 2,421
Clock50.23
early days — 1 solve1,216 / 1,232

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

Stevenage Spring 2022: 25.65Stevenage Summer 2022: 20.62Stevenage Autumn A 2022: 21.4120.6225.6530 Apr 202224 Sep 2022

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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 0.62 away.
  • A sub-12 Pyraminx single — 86,891 people have one; it is 0.25 away.

Targets move as he improves.