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Zach Zarus

3×3 · top 24.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2015 · 2015ZARU01

Zach Zarus has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 15.09, set at US Nationals 2016, puts him in the top 24.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 13,442nd in the United States. Across 9 competitions since September 2015, he has put 96 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.14 in September 2015 to 15.09, a 32% improvement. Zach has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 24.8% of 284,439 all-time
15.09
signature single · US Nationals 2016
96
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×315.0918.18
top 24.8%13,442 / 59,724
2×25.295.83
top 42.9%17,291 / 40,951
Pyraminx9.2313.74
top 46.8%13,482 / 28,708
Skewb10.1814.45
top 56.0%10,180 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed51.16
early days — 2 solves11,405 / 15,683
4×42:08.19
early days — 2 solves16,035 / 19,072
5×53:37.04
early days — 2 solves8,188 / 9,401

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

Slow n Steady Fall 2015: 22.14Lexington Fall 2015: 20.33River Hill Fall 2015: 17.62Slow N Steady Winter 2016: 16.86Virginia Open Spring 2016: 17.13Severna Park Spring 2016: 16.45US Nationals 2016: 15.09Nisei Week 2016: 17.05Slow N Steady Fall 2016: 16.6815.0922.1426 Sep 201524 Sep 2016

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 0.09 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.