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Wade Rainey

3×3 · top 29.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2016 · 2016RAIN02

Wade Rainey has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 16.38, set at Wiscube 2018, puts him in the top 29.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 15,916th in the United States. Across 7 competitions since September 2016, he has put 78 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one, an early reading from 6 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 33.85 in September 2016 to 16.38, a 52% improvement. Wade has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 29.0% of 284,439 all-time
16.38
signature single · Wiscube 2018
78
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×316.3822.18
top 29.0%15,916 / 59,724
Skewb6.988.73
top 33.5%5,622 / 18,907
Pyraminx9.1816.19
top 46.4%13,347 / 28,708
Square-130.8339.80
top 50.9%3,334 / 6,743
2×26.097.29
top 51.8%21,136 / 40,951
3×3 one-handed41.5246.48
top 67.4%9,631 / 15,683
4×41:53.19
top 78.4%14,471 / 19,072
3×3 Fewest Moves52 moves53.00
early days — 3 solves1,683 / 2,040
5×53:47.90
early days — 1 solve8,441 / 9,401
Clock50.72
early days — 2 solves8,722 / 8,927

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

Wiscube 2016: 33.85Dixon Spring 2017: 22.59Wiscube 2017: 29.34Elk Cubing 2018: 23.68Wiscube 2018: 16.38Albany Winter 2019: 20.2416.3833.853 Sep 201616 Feb 2019

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 1.38 away.
  • A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 0.98 away.

Targets move as he improves.