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Trevor Downing

3×3 · top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2018 · 2018DOWN01

Trevor Downing has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.87, set at Bring the Heat AZ 2023, puts him in the top 4.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,536th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since January 2018, he has put 92 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.32 in January 2018 to 8.87, a 52% improvement. Trevor has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.6% of 284,439 all-time
8.87
signature single · Bring the Heat AZ 2023
92
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.8711.50
top 4.6%2,536 / 59,724
4×441.4448.06
top 13.8%2,061 / 19,072
2×23.845.12
top 24.4%9,576 / 40,951

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

AZCubing Hamilton Winter 2018: 18.32Cerritos Open 2018: 16.20AZCubing Open 2018: 13.89AZCubing Winter 2022: 11.54Never Stop Turning AZ 2023: 11.18Bring the Heat AZ 2023: 8.878.8718.3213 Jan 201820 Aug 2023

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.

  • Caleb Hoffman — met in 17 rounds, finished ahead once
  • Ivan Vanek — met in 17 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Ngan Tran — met in 15 rounds, finished ahead 7 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.87 away.
  • A sub-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 1.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.