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Tristan Boswell

2×2 · top 23.5% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2018 · 2018BOSW01

Tristan Boswell has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 3.76, set at Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024, puts him in the top 23.5% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 249th in South Africa. Across 7 competitions since April 2018, he has put 220 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 93% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 56.34 in April 2018 to 15.12, a 73% improvement. Tristan has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 23.5% of 186,767 all-time
3.76
signature single · Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024
220
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 93% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSouth Africa
2×23.765.15
top 23.5%249 / 1,510
3×315.1216.93
top 24.9%314 / 2,164
Pyraminx7.3810.87
top 31.0%233 / 946
Skewb6.819.24
top 32.2%112 / 438
4×41:16.351:34.28
top 52.8%187 / 491
3×3 one-handed37.7148.64
top 61.9%181 / 467
Square-139.621:07.32
top 64.9%78 / 118
Megaminx2:51.623:19.50
top 70.9%144 / 266
5×53:10.113:27.50
top 81.2%152 / 221
Clock36.84
top 91.2%132 / 148

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

Speedcubes Cape Town 2018: 56.34Cape Town Summer 2020: 34.41CubingZA Cape Cubes Summer 2023: 20.60CubingZA Cape Cubes Autumn 2023: 16.10CubingZA Cape Cubes Spring 2023: 18.16Mid Summer Madness Cape Town 2024: 15.83Rubik's WCA African Championship 2024: 15.1215.1256.349 Apr 201821 Sep 2024

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-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.76 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.