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Surin Ahn

3×3 · top 14.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2008 · 2008AHNS01

Surin Ahn has been competing for 18 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 12.15, set at Princeton Fall 2011, puts her in the top 14.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 7,702nd in the United States. Across 4 competitions since November 2008, she has put 80 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 17.55 in November 2008 to 12.15, a 31% improvement. Surin has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 14.4% of 284,439 all-time
12.15
signature single · Princeton Fall 2011
80
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×312.1515.05
top 14.4%7,702 / 59,724
2×23.054.15
top 14.8%5,810 / 40,951
4×41:02.551:19.04
top 39.2%6,370 / 19,072

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

Newark Open 2008: 17.55Newark Winter 2009: 13.87MIT Spring 2010: 13.03Princeton Fall 2011: 12.1512.1517.558 Nov 200824 Sep 2011

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.05 away.

Targets move as she improves.