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Tom Savage

3×3 · top 5.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since November 2013 · 2013SAVA02

Tom Savage has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.05, set at Fontwell Open 2019, puts him in the top 5.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 378th in the United Kingdom. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 28 competitions since November 2013, he has put 1,010 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 56.57 in November 2013 to 9.05, an 84% improvement. Tom has entered 28 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 5.0% of 284,439 all-time
9.05
signature single · Fontwell Open 2019
1,010
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×39.0510.96
top 5.0%378 / 6,689
4×433.5538.00
top 5.4%128 / 2,071
Skewb3.365.76
top 6.9%154 / 2,421
5×51:04.761:12.79
top 8.2%110 / 1,151
3×3 one-handed15.2219.59
top 8.6%173 / 1,851
2×23.074.71
top 15.1%899 / 4,895
Clock8.369.03
top 16.9%241 / 1,232
Pyraminx5.787.32
top 18.4%713 / 3,656
Megaminx1:57.882:09.63
top 44.5%512 / 966

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

UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 56.57Oxford Open 2014: 40.54ABHC 2014: 21.68Cuthberts Open 2014: 18.57UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 14.51Harrow Spring 2015: 18.31Welwyn Garden City 2015: 13.90August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 17.21Cuthberts Open 2015: 15.68North London Open 2016: 17.94August Bank Holiday Competition 2017: 19.33Guildford Open 2017: 15.43UK Championship 2017: 12.69Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 12.05Welsh Open 2018: 11.82Manchester Open 2018: 12.45Guildford Open 2018: 11.01High Wycombe Open 2018: 10.51Peterborough Open 2018: 10.10August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 10.93UK Championship 2018: 9.97Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 10.14Fontwell Open 2019: 9.05UK Championship 2019: 10.55Guildford Open 2020: 9.999.0556.5716 Nov 201318 Jan 2020

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.

  • Harry Savage — met in 214 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
  • Robert Yau — met in 205 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
  • James Molloy — met in 193 rounds, finished ahead 39 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.05 away.
  • A sub-30 4×4 single — 2,388 people have one; it is 3.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.