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Taran Avery

3×3 · top 52.3% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2015 · 2015AVER02

Taran Avery has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 24.85, set at Puget Sound NxNxN 2018, puts him in the top 52.3% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 30,568th in the United States. Across 6 competitions since May 2015, he has put 45 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 36.68 in May 2015 to 24.85, a 32% improvement. Taran has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 52.3% of 284,439 all-time
24.85
signature single · Puget Sound NxNxN 2018
45
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×324.8527.35
top 52.3%30,568 / 59,724
2×26.6410.08
top 57.3%23,462 / 40,951
Pyraminx13.3021.78
top 74.5%22,087 / 28,708

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

UW Spring 2015: 36.68Cubes4Speed MOX Summer 2015: 41.42Puget Sound Spring 2016: 29.76US Nationals 2016: 27.93Puget Sound Fall 2016: 25.86Puget Sound NxNxN 2018: 24.8524.8541.429 May 20158 Dec 2018

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.

  • Jacob Lawty — met in 9 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Ben Yu — met in 8 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Tyler Halgren — met in 7 rounds, finished ahead once

Next targets

  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 4.85 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.