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Zeke Vanstan

3×3 · top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2021 · 2021VANS01

Zeke Vanstan has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.58, set at Cranbourne Spring Sunday 2023, puts him in the top 2.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 219th in Australia. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since December 2021, he has put 514 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 72% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.29 in December 2021 to 7.58, a 56% improvement. Zeke has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.1% of 284,439 all-time
7.58
signature single · Cranbourne Spring Sunday 2023
514
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 72% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustralia
3×37.5810.30
top 2.1%219 / 11,709
3×3 one-handed14.7522.42
top 7.6%176 / 2,659
2×22.393.40
top 7.9%585 / 8,567
Skewb3.576.80
top 8.2%221 / 3,534
Pyraminx4.937.53
top 12.8%603 / 5,993
Megaminx1:24.721:30.58
top 24.8%306 / 1,277
4×458.041:07.32
top 34.4%902 / 3,051

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

December Series: Kensington 2021: 17.29Victorian Open 2022: 10.96Melbourne Trilogy Sunday 2022: 10.80Koalafication Melbourne 2022: 9.51Melbourne Cube Days 2022: 11.94Rubik's WCA Oceanic Championship 2022: 10.99Kensington Summer Sunday 2023: 7.74Brilliant Ballarat 2023: 10.89Speedcubing at Seaworks 2023: 9.69St Oliver's Speedy Saturday 2023: 10.23Victorian Open 2023: 9.96Melbourne Cubing for Kids Saturday 2023: 9.93Cranbourne Spring Sunday 2023: 7.58The Big Cube Melbourne 2023: 9.41Hampton Park Summer Sunday 2023: 8.77Altona Algorithms 2024: 9.557.5817.2919 Dec 20212 Mar 2024

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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 1.58 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.