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Tristan O'Brien

3×3 · top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2019 · 2019OBRI02

Tristan O'Brien has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.40, set at Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023, puts him in the top 8.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 445th in Germany. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since September 2019, he has put 84 official solves on the record across three events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 71% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Tristan has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.40
signature single · Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023
84
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 71% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×310.4013.36
top 8.6%445 / 4,109
2×26.217.52
top 53.0%1,712 / 2,875
4×41:40.721:53.84
top 71.1%1,350 / 1,934

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

Monnem City Cubing 2019: 10.76Baden-Württemberg Open 2019: 12.12Georgia Open 2022: 12.31Georgia Open 2023: 13.39Please Be Loud in Tashkent 2023: 11.75Rubik's WCA World Championship 2023: 10.40Ulaanbaatar Cubing Challenge Feb 2024: 12.10Summer in Bishkek 2024: 13.3610.4013.3921 Sep 201922 Jun 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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.40 away.
  • A sub-6 2×2 single — 95,042 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.