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Will Wooden

3×3 · top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016WOOD02

Will Wooden has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.11, set at Southeast Texas Winter 2019, puts him in the top 1.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 880th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since January 2016, he has put 889 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 73% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.06 in January 2016 to 7.11, a 69% improvement. Will has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.5% of 284,439 all-time
7.11
signature single · Southeast Texas Winter 2019
889
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 73% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×37.119.92
top 1.5%880 / 59,724
2×21.593.55
top 2.6%1,000 / 40,951
Skewb3.314.98
top 6.6%1,022 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed14.7821.09
top 7.7%1,021 / 15,683
Pyraminx4.127.34
top 8.3%2,116 / 28,708
4×436.9039.11
top 8.6%1,291 / 19,072
3×3 blindfolded1:02.65—
top 13.9%265 / 2,092
Megaminx1:08.021:13.19
top 14.5%980 / 7,841
Square-114.6119.93
top 15.5%1,044 / 6,743
5×51:15.701:26.45
top 15.9%1,231 / 9,401
6×62:50.483:02.07
top 36.3%1,308 / 4,196
Clock14.11—
top 44.3%3,558 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves—
top 68.6%1,424 / 2,040
7×76:52.25—
early days — 2 solves2,463 / 3,184

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

OKCubing 2016: 23.06KCubing Spring 2016: 16.10US Nationals 2016: 16.33KCubing Summer 2016: 14.98Lawrence Fall 2016: 12.45Marrs Mixup Winter 2017: 9.80KCubing Winter 2017: 13.02Iowa State Spring 2017: 11.20Overland Park Open 2017: 11.36CubingUSA Nationals 2017: 11.14Heartland Championships 2017: 10.58KCubing Fall 2017: 9.70SCC Winter 2018: 8.55Cubing 4 Kids 2018: 9.29BarbeCubing 2018: 8.74CubeIowa 2018: 9.26CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 11.11Southeast Texas Winter 2019: 7.11BarbeCubing Spring 2019: 7.58CubingUSA Nationals 2019: 8.417.1123.0616 Jan 20161 Aug 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.

  • Cale Schoon — met in 118 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
  • Walker Welch — met in 111 rounds, finished ahead 7 times
  • David Woner — met in 104 rounds, finished ahead 19 times

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.11 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.59 away.

Targets move as he improves.