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Zach Zwerling

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 9.9% of 12,294 all-time · competing since September 2013 · 2013ZWER01

Zach Zwerling has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 28 moves, set at It Better Be Solved NYC 2018, puts him in the top 9.9% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 229th in the United States. Across 20 competitions since September 2013, he has put 344 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 63% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 7 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 31.02 in September 2013 to 11.21, a 64% improvement. Zach has entered 20 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 9.9% of 12,294 all-time
28 moves
signature single · It Better Be Solved NYC 2018
344
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 63% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 Fewest Moves28 moves32.33
top 9.9%229 / 2,040
3×311.2113.25
top 11.1%6,031 / 59,724
2×22.914.61
top 13.2%5,203 / 40,951
4×444.5854.14
top 17.8%2,695 / 19,072
Skewb5.256.71
top 20.1%3,207 / 18,907
3×3 one-handed19.9828.51
top 20.4%2,620 / 15,683
5×51:48.871:56.74
top 41.8%3,395 / 9,401
3×3 blindfolded2:26.09
top 42.0%890 / 2,092
6×63:40.283:59.40
top 58.8%2,246 / 4,196
Pyraminx11.1319.02
top 61.5%18,074 / 28,708
Clock21.6332.84
top 69.1%5,965 / 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

CCFC Fall 2013: 31.02Liberty Science Center Open 2013: 25.50Cornell Open Spring 2014: 23.49Red Cross Cubing Open 2014: 19.56Princeton Fall 2017: 16.45Liberty Science Center Open 2017: 15.01New York City Winter 2018: 14.96Rutgers Spring 2018: 11.84New York City Spring 2018: 11.21North Plainfield Open 2018: 12.25CubingUSA Northeast Championship 2018: 12.67Brooklyn 2018: 13.01CubingUSA Nationals 2018: 13.23Kew Forest Open 2018: 12.41New York City Fall 2018: 13.6911.2131.0221 Sep 201321 Oct 2018

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.21 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.91 away.

Targets move as he improves.