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Tyler Dean

3×3 · top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2018 · 2018DEAN02

Tyler Dean has been competing for 8 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.85, set at Charlotte Winter 2020, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,518th in the United States. Until May 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since September 2018, he has put 275 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.21 in September 2018 to 8.85, a 42% improvement. Tyler has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.5% of 284,439 all-time
8.85
signature single · Charlotte Winter 2020
275
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.8511.51
top 4.5%2,518 / 59,724
2×22.844.32
top 12.4%4,890 / 40,951
4×444.6350.20
top 17.8%2,712 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed21.2025.68
top 23.8%3,052 / 15,683
Megaminx1:26.011:34.36
top 25.6%1,764 / 7,841
Pyraminx6.749.26
top 25.7%7,058 / 28,708
5×51:30.761:47.13
top 27.9%2,192 / 9,401
7×74:42.445:17.42
top 45.3%1,313 / 3,184
Skewb9.6815.31
top 52.9%9,539 / 18,907
Clock20.731:07.73
top 66.8%5,739 / 8,927
Square-146.871:07.52
top 73.1%4,812 / 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

Carolina Season Starter 2018: 15.21Tar Heel Tango 2018: 14.02Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2018: 12.97Gobbler Cube Day Winter 2019: 11.59Wolfpack Winter 2019: 11.72Cape Fear Cubing 2019: 10.33Rocky The Ram Cubes 2019: 9.09Carolina Clock 'Stravaganza 2019: 10.18Charlotte Winter 2020: 8.85Y-Perms Near the Y-Bridge Zanesville 2024: 10.098.8515.218 Sep 201814 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.85 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.