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Tycho Bear

3×3 · top 28.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2017 · 2017BEAR02

Tycho Bear has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.22, set at Skyline Open 2018, puts him in the top 28.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15,618th in the United States. Across 5 competitions since June 2017, he has put 28 official solves on the record across two events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 20% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. Tycho has entered five competitions, more competitions than 83% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 28.5% of 284,439 all-time
16.22
signature single · Skyline Open 2018
28
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.2217.93
top 28.5%15,618 / 59,724
Square-138.6449.41
top 63.7%4,192 / 6,743

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

SnoCo Cubing Summer 2017: 17.44Puget Sound Fall 2017: 16.44SnoCo Cubing Fall 2017: 18.24Puget Sound Winter 2.0 2017: 18.31Skyline Open 2018: 16.2216.2218.3117 Jun 201727 Jan 2018

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-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 1.22 away.
  • A sub-30 Square-1 single — 12,477 people have one; it is 8.64 away.

Targets move as he improves.