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Tim O'Brien
3×3 · top 0.82% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2015 · 2015OBRI01
Tim O'Brien has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.46, set at Bristol Winter 2024, puts him in the top 0.82% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 521st in the United States. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 18 competitions since January 2015, he has put 461 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 75% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.37 in January 2015 to 6.46, a 72% improvement. Tim has entered 18 competitions, more competitions than 96% 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 | 6.46 | 7.70 | top 0.82% | 521 / 59,724 | |
| 4×4 | 33.53 | 38.16 | top 5.4% | 829 / 19,072 | |
| 2×2 | 2.16 | 3.99 | top 5.9% | 2,357 / 40,951 | |
| Megaminx | 1:03.72 | 1:11.12 | top 11.9% | 807 / 7,841 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 17.08 | 24.15 | top 12.8% | 1,654 / 15,683 | |
| 5×5 | 1:27.84 | 1:29.38 | top 25.6% | 1,999 / 9,401 | |
| Pyraminx | 10.98 | 25.16 | top 60.4% | 17,758 / 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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 20 Jan 2024Three personal bests in one day at Bristol Winter 2024.
- 17 Nov 2018Three personal bests in one day at Longhorn Fall 2018.
- 22 Sep 2018Three personal bests in one day at DFW Cubing Fiesta September 2018.
- 23 Jul 2016First sub-10 3×3: 9.76 at Westlake Open 2016.
- 25 Apr 2015First sub-20 3×3: 13.93 at Remember The Alamo 2015.
- 25 Apr 2015First sub-15 3×3: 13.93 at Remember The Alamo 2015.
Competitions
- Bristol Winter 2024 · 20 Jan 2024 — 3 personal bests set
- Austin Fall 2019 · 16 Nov 2019
- Austin Summer 2019 · 10 Aug 2019 — 1 personal best set
- North Dallas 2019 · 22 Jun 2019 — 2 personal bests set
- Katy Cubing 2019 · 16 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- North Star Cubing Challenge 2019 · 26 Jan 2019
- Frisco Liberty Cubing 2019 · 19 Jan 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Longhorn Fall 2018 · 17 Nov 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Trinity Valley Open 2018 · 10 Nov 2018
- DFW Cubing Fiesta September 2018 · 22 Sep 2018 — 3 personal bests set
- Westlake Open 2016 · 23 Jul 2016 — 1 personal best set
- Austin Summer Open 2016 · 28 May 2016
- Do the Cube at the DoSeum 2016 · 1 May 2016 — 1 personal best set
- HOOAH SMA 2015 · 14 Nov 2015
- Dallas Back to School 2015 · 16 Aug 2015 — 2 personal bests set
- Michigan 2015 · 10 Jul 2015 — 2 personal bests set
- Remember The Alamo 2015 · 25 Apr 2015 — 5 personal bests set
- Austin Cubing Limits 2015 · 3 Jan 2015
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.
- Shonathon Collins — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 11 times
- Jeff Park — met in 35 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Jason Lee — met in 34 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.46 away.
- A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 3.53 away.
Targets move as he improves.