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Zak Walters

3×3 · top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2013 · 2013WALT01

Zak Walters has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.62, set at Weston-super-Mare Open 2017, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 320th in the United Kingdom. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 31 competitions since June 2013, he has put 1,029 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 81% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.84 in June 2013 to 8.62, a 52% improvement. Zak has entered 31 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 4.0% of 284,439 all-time
8.62
signature single · Weston-super-Mare Open 2017
1,029
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 81% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited Kingdom
3×38.6211.50
top 4.0%320 / 6,689
2×22.424.66
top 8.1%551 / 4,895
4×438.2444.31
top 10.0%238 / 2,071
3×3 blindfolded1:01.141:17.15
top 13.4%69 / 311
3×3 one-handed19.2424.60
top 18.5%350 / 1,851
5×51:28.721:33.65
top 26.2%345 / 1,151
3×3 Fewest Moves36 moves40.33
top 33.6%142 / 372
3×3 Multi-Blind5 of 6 cubes · 28:40—
top 42.5%70 / 126
Megaminx1:54.052:15.32
top 42.6%483 / 966
Pyraminx9.7711.40
top 51.2%2,067 / 3,656
Skewb9.5622.68
top 52.2%1,235 / 2,421
6×64:09.394:17.67
top 68.5%399 / 548
7×76:13.337:33.85
top 70.7%342 / 459
Clock23.3329.24
top 73.2%917 / 1,232
Square-11:09.82—
early days — 2 solves710 / 778

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

Cambridge Open 2013: 17.84UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 17.87Welwyn Garden City Open 2014: 14.58Welcome To Cambridge 2014: 13.77Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 14.94Cuthberts Open 2014: 14.00UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2014: 14.05Harrow Spring 2015: 14.73Welcome Back to Guildford 2015: 11.39The Glorious North 2015: 11.75August Bank Holiday Competition 2015: 12.02Cuthberts Open 2015: 11.00UK Rubik's Cube Championship 2015: 11.56Manchester Open 2016: 9.67European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 12.74UK Championship 2016: 10.99London Open 2017: 11.09World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 9.88Weston-super-Mare Open 2017: 8.62High Wycombe Open 2018: 11.66WCA European Championship 2018: 10.57August Bank Holiday Competition 2018: 9.87UK Championship 2018: 11.23Weston-super-Mare Open 2018: 11.04London Open 2019: 9.99August Bank Holiday Celebration 2019: 11.41UK Championship 2019: 10.28Guildford Open 2020: 10.998.6217.8715 Jun 201318 Jan 2020

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 0.62 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.42 away.

Targets move as he improves.