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Timothy Sun

3×3 · top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2007 · 2007SUNT01

Timothy Sun has been competing for 19 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.84, set at MIT Fall 2012, puts him in the top 2.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,458th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 46 competitions since June 2007, he has put 1,960 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 88% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.53 in June 2007 to 7.84, a 55% improvement. Timothy has entered 46 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.84
signature single · MIT Fall 2012
1,960
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.8410.10
top 2.5%1,458 / 59,724
2×21.653.43
top 2.8%1,107 / 40,951
3×3 Fewest Moves27 moves28.67
top 8.0%187 / 2,040
4×438.7244.57
top 10.6%1,569 / 19,072
3×3 blindfolded56.291:03.25
top 11.9%228 / 2,092
Pyraminx4.818.17
top 12.0%3,134 / 28,708
3×3 one-handed18.3621.51
top 16.0%2,065 / 15,683
5×51:16.581:23.80
top 16.5%1,283 / 9,401
Clock9.1910.26
top 21.0%1,621 / 8,927
Square-117.0522.72
top 21.1%1,410 / 6,743
Megaminx1:32.471:41.72
top 29.8%2,088 / 7,841
3×3 Multi-Blind6 of 6 cubes · 36:59
top 30.3%227 / 731
4×4 blindfolded6:11.86
top 30.9%128 / 440
5×5 blindfolded15:02.00
early days — 2 solves90 / 218
Skewb9.3011.11
top 50.5%9,036 / 18,907
6×63:42.303:54.78
top 59.5%2,279 / 4,196
7×75:43.155:52.46
top 63.5%1,906 / 3,184

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

US Open 2007: 17.53Guangdong Open 2007: 14.27Beijing Open 2007: 11.61Beijing Spring Open 2008: 12.56US Nationals and Open 2008: 11.21Shanghai Open 2008: 12.40Guangdong Open 2008: 12.36Beijing Fall Open 2008: 11.06Nanjing Open 2008: 12.16Beijing Spring Open 2009: 10.77Shijiazhuang Open 2009: 12.77Qingming Festival Open 2009: 10.71Beijing Metropolis Open 2009: 12.06Xi'an Open 2009: 11.21US Nationals 2009: 11.31World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 11.65MIT Fall 2009: 12.08Washington DC Open 2010: 12.05Drexel Winter 2010: 10.77MIT Spring 2010: 9.66Baltimore Spring competition 2010: 11.15United States Rubik's Cube Championships 2010: 9.40Liberty Science Center Open 2011: 8.75Jersey Shore Open 2012: 10.09United States National Championships 2012: 10.44St. Joseph's College Summer 2012: 10.34Princeton Fall 2012: 9.81MIT Fall 2012: 7.84Levittown Open 2012: 9.84Liberty Science Center Open 2012: 9.88Monmouth County Open 2013: 9.30Harvard Spring 2013: 9.11MIT Spring 2013: 9.47Cornell Open Spring 2013: 10.15Newark Head to Head 2013: 9.27World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 9.29CCFC Fall 2013: 9.56Liberty Science Center Open 2013: 9.67Princeton Winter 2014: 10.03US Nationals 2014: 9.33Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 8.95Liberty Science 2015: 10.717.8417.5316 Jun 200719 Dec 2015

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.84 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.65 away.

Targets move as he improves.