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Zach Metzler
Skewb · top 4.5% of 73,281 all-time · competing since January 2017 · 2017METZ01
Zach Metzler has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.90, set at Iowa Fall 2022, puts him in the top 4.5% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 700th in the United States. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 20 competitions since January 2017, he has put 525 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.33 in January 2017 to 13.68, a 21% improvement. Zach has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skewb | 2.90 | 4.30 | top 4.5% | 700 / 18,907 | |
| 2×2 | 2.75 | 5.07 | top 11.5% | 4,506 / 40,951 | |
| 3×3 | 13.68 | 15.96 | top 19.8% | 10,673 / 59,724 | |
| Square-1 | 24.04 | 27.71 | top 36.9% | 2,397 / 6,743 | |
| Pyraminx | 8.17 | 10.34 | top 37.6% | 10,723 / 28,708 | |
| 4×4 | 1:08.57 | 1:15.63 | top 45.4% | 7,558 / 19,072 |
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
- 5 Aug 2017First sub-15 3×3: 14.58 at Heartland Championships 2017.
- 5 Aug 2017Three personal bests in one day at Heartland Championships 2017.
- 7 Jan 2017First competition: Marrs Mixup Winter 2017. A 17.33 3×3 single to start from.
Competitions
- Iowa Winter Cooldown 2026 · 28 Feb 2026
- Algs in Ankeny 2024 · 9 Mar 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Dubuque Winter 2023 · 5 Feb 2023 — 2 personal bests set
- Iowa Fall 2022 · 19 Nov 2022 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2022 · 29 Apr 2022 — 1 personal best set
- North Liberty 2019 · 19 Oct 2019
- West Branch Summer 2019 · 13 Jul 2019 — 1 personal best set
- CubeIowa 2019 · 13 Apr 2019
- Virtual Cubing 2019 · 23 Mar 2019 — 1 personal best set
- CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2019 · 9 Mar 2019
- West Branch 2019 · 10 Feb 2019 — 1 personal best set
- Independence Cube Day 2018 · 10 Nov 2018
- Gateway Ravioli Spring 2018 · 22 Apr 2018
- CubeIowa 2018 · 14 Apr 2018
- North Iowa 2017 · 9 Dec 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- September Speedcubing 2017 · 9 Sep 2017 — 1 personal best set
- Michigan 2017 · 19 Aug 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Heartland Championships 2017 · 5 Aug 2017 — 3 personal bests set
- Iowa State Spring 2017 · 18 Mar 2017 — 2 personal bests set
- Marrs Mixup Winter 2017 · 7 Jan 2017
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 73 rounds, never finished ahead
- Simon Kellum — met in 71 rounds, finished ahead twice
- Brandon Mikel — met in 60 rounds, finished ahead 21 times
Next targets
- A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.90 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.75 away.
Targets move as he improves.