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Zachary Olmoz

3×3 · top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2016 · 2016OLMO01

Zachary Olmoz has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.55, set at Hudson Valley Winter 2019, puts him in the top 3.8% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,165th in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 14 competitions since January 2016, he has put 370 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 10% around a typical one, steadier than 94% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.22 in January 2016 to 8.55, a 47% improvement. Zachary has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.8% of 284,439 all-time
8.55
signature single · Hudson Valley Winter 2019
370
official solves on the record
10%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 94% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.5511.96
top 3.8%2,165 / 59,724
2×23.536.11
top 20.6%8,067 / 40,951
Pyraminx7.0613.09
top 28.4%7,828 / 28,708
4×453.2956.86
top 28.7%4,467 / 19,072
3×3 one-handed27.0831.52
top 39.6%5,267 / 15,683
Skewb9.2915.10
top 50.4%9,023 / 18,907
5×52:09.602:24.14
top 55.2%4,658 / 9,401
Square-153.50
top 79.1%5,258 / 6,743
6×65:32.23
early days — 1 solve3,581 / 4,196
7×79:08.24
early days — 1 solve3,056 / 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

Red Cross Cubing Open 2016: 16.22Big Apple Cube Clash 2016: 15.71Weston Spring 2016: 15.12Big Apple Spring 2016: 12.23Slow N Steady Spring 2016: 11.58Lexington Summer 2016: 11.94Quabbin Open 2016: 11.97Hudson Valley Open Fall 2016: 10.43UMass ODS Fall 2016: 9.97Monument Mountain Winter 2017: 10.52Weston Fall 2017: 9.07Hudson Valley Open 2018: 10.32MIT Fall 2018: 10.20Hudson Valley Winter 2019: 8.558.5516.229 Jan 20165 Jan 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-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.55 away.
  • A sub-3 2×2 single — 26,570 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as he improves.