People · United States
Stephen Viray
3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2018 · 2018VIRA02
Stephen Viray has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.12, set at Babylon Fall 2021, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 887th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since May 2018, he has put 406 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.57 in May 2018 to 7.12, a 33% improvement. Stephen has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 7.12 | 8.79 | top 1.5% | 887 / 59,724 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 11.06 | 16.33 | top 1.9% | 303 / 15,683 | |
| 4×4 | 28.73 | 33.58 | top 2.1% | 351 / 19,072 | |
| 2×2 | 1.68 | 2.51 | top 3.0% | 1,160 / 40,951 | |
| Pyraminx | 4.40 | 5.62 | top 9.7% | 2,514 / 28,708 | |
| 5×5 | 1:21.45 | 1:29.03 | top 20.3% | 1,583 / 9,401 | |
| 6×6 | 3:39.64 | 3:45.97 | top 58.5% | 2,230 / 4,196 | |
| Clock | 23.25 | — | early days — 1 solve | 6,343 / 8,927 | |
| Skewb | 17.97 | 31.99 | top 86.1% | 16,572 / 18,907 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 7 May 2022Three personal bests in one day at Princeton Spring 2022.
- 14 Nov 2021Four personal bests in one day at Babylon Fall 2021.
- 31 Jul 2021Three personal bests in one day at Empire State Summer A 2021.
- 12 Oct 2019Three personal bests in one day at Brooklyn Fall 2019.
- 14 Sep 2019Four personal bests in one day at Ridge Cubing Fall 2019.
- 10 Nov 2018First sub-10 3×3: 9.85 at Lower Moreland Fall 2018.
Competitions
- Hudson Valley 2023 · 19 Nov 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Troy Story 2023 · 14 Jan 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Princeton Spring 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 3 personal bests set
- Empire State Winter A 2022 · 15 Jan 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Babylon Fall 2021 · 14 Nov 2021 — 4 personal bests set
- Empire State Summer A 2021 · 31 Jul 2021 — 3 personal bests set
- Babylon Winter 2020 · 29 Feb 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Liberty Science Center Open 2019 · 14 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Brooklyn Fall 2019 · 12 Oct 2019 — 3 personal bests set
- Ridge Cubing Fall 2019 · 14 Sep 2019 — 4 personal bests set
- Hudson Valley Winter 2019 · 5 Jan 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Lower Moreland Fall 2018 · 10 Nov 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- North Plainfield Open 2018 · 19 May 2018
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.
- Lauren Phung — met in 55 rounds, finished ahead 33 times
- Chris Chi — met in 49 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
- Livia Kleiner — met in 46 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.12 away.
- A sub-10 3×3 one-handed single — 779 people have one; it is 1.06 away.
Targets move as he improves.