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Ty Stern
Pyraminx · top 3.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since November 2019 · 2019STER03
Ty Stern has been competing for 7 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.02, set at Cube More in Ardmore 2024, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 981st in the United States. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since November 2019, he has put 299 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.13 in February 2020 to 12.99, a 52% improvement. Ty has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyraminx | 3.02 | 7.25 | top 3.7% | 981 / 28,708 | |
| 3×3 | 12.99 | 17.36 | top 17.4% | 9,316 / 59,724 | |
| Skewb | 5.41 | 10.52 | top 21.3% | 3,396 / 18,907 | |
| 2×2 | 3.62 | 4.89 | top 21.7% | 8,493 / 40,951 | |
| 4×4 | 1:07.96 | 1:15.79 | top 44.8% | 7,446 / 19,072 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 33.43 | 39.83 | top 54.2% | 7,528 / 15,683 | |
| Megaminx | 2:33.02 | — | top 62.6% | 4,753 / 7,841 | |
| 5×5 | 2:26.34 | 2:45.55 | top 64.1% | 5,559 / 9,401 | |
| 6×6 | 7:56.21 | — | early days — 1 solve | 4,093 / 4,196 |
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
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 4 Feb 2023First sub-15 3×3: 14.36 at Catered Cubing Arkansas 2023.
- 4 Feb 2023Three personal bests in one day at Catered Cubing Arkansas 2023.
- 5 Feb 2022First sub-20 3×3: 16.78 at Kansas Cubing Open Winter 2022.
- 9 Nov 2019First competition: Fort Worth Fall Fiesta 2019.
Competitions
- Cube Against Cancer Edmond 2025 · 16 Feb 2025
- Cube More in Ardmore 2024 · 21 Sep 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- DFW Back to School 2024 · 25 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- CubingUSA Southern Championship 2024 · 2 Aug 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- MYHM Puzzling in Plano 2023 · 20 May 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Catered Cubing Arkansas 2023 · 4 Feb 2023 — 3 personal bests set
- Kansas Cubing Open Spring 2022 · 7 May 2022 — 1 personal best set
- Kansas Cubing Open Winter 2022 · 5 Feb 2022 — 2 personal bests set
- Trinity Valley Spring 2020 · 22 Feb 2020
- Frisco Liberty Cubing 2020 · 1 Feb 2020 — 2 personal bests set
- Dallas Cubemas 2019 · 21 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- OU Winter 2019 · 14 Dec 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Fort Worth Fall Fiesta 2019 · 9 Nov 2019
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.
- Ryan Pilat — met in 59 rounds, never finished ahead
- Jose Ortiz Jr. — met in 42 rounds, never finished ahead
- Casey Ngo — met in 36 rounds, finished ahead once
Next targets
- A sub-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
- A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.99 away.
Targets move as he improves.