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Stephen Cotterrell

3×3 · top 6.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2014 · 2014COTT02

Stephen Cotterrell has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.81, set at Cape Town Open 2015, puts him in the top 6.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 69th in South Africa. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since November 2014, he has put 376 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 84% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.63 in November 2014 to 9.81, a 28% improvement. Stephen has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.81
signature single · Cape Town Open 2015
376
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 84% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
3×39.8111.77
top 6.9%69 / 2,164
2×23.474.91
top 19.8%204 / 1,510
4×448.3156.76
top 22.5%67 / 491
Pyraminx6.4212.79
top 23.2%177 / 946
3×3 one-handed23.9129.46
top 31.2%88 / 467
5×52:07.772:20.50
top 54.1%97 / 221
Megaminx2:33.002:49.93
top 62.6%128 / 266

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

Johannesburg 2014: 13.63Cape Town 2014: 12.93Cape Town 2015: 10.21Tuks Winter 2015: 11.97Johannesburg Open 2015: 11.63Cape Town Open 2015: 9.81Cape Town Open 2016: 11.69Johannesburg 2016: 12.15Cape Town 2016: 10.61Speedcubes Cape Town 2019: 12.55Cape Town Spring 2019: 12.009.8113.6323 Nov 201420 Oct 2019

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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.81 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.47 away.

Targets move as he improves.