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Zephyr Brown

2×2 · top 11.8% of 186,767 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015BROW05

Zephyr Brown has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.78, set at Berkeley Winter 2016, puts him in the top 11.8% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,653rd in the United States. Across 6 competitions since April 2015, he has put 70 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 40.56 in April 2015 to 19.93, a 51% improvement. Zephyr has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 11.8% of 186,767 all-time
2.78
signature single · Berkeley Winter 2016
70
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
2×22.785.74
top 11.8%4,653 / 40,951
3×319.9322.63
top 39.7%22,514 / 59,724
Pyraminx9.8313.10
top 51.7%15,031 / 28,708
Skewb9.8414.77
top 53.9%9,763 / 18,907

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

SPCS Stanford Spring 2015: 40.56SoCal Supercomp 2015: 24.58BASC 7 2015: 26.56Berkeley Summer 2015: 24.55Berkeley Winter 2016: 19.9319.9340.5619 Apr 201520 Feb 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.

  • Riley Woo — met in 16 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Alex Johnson — met in 15 rounds, never finished ahead
  • Ryan Jew — met in 14 rounds, finished ahead twice

Next targets

  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.78 away.
  • A sub-15 3×3 single — 69,493 people have one; it is 4.93 away.

Targets move as he improves.