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The Pyraminx, in numbers

Everything countable about the Pyraminx: the mathematics of the puzzle with its sources, and the live state of the sport, rebuilt nightly.

  • Setting the trivial tips aside, a Pyraminx has 933,120 positions (75,582,720 counting them). God's Number, the worst case for a perfect solver, is 11 moves. Wikipedia: Pyraminx
  • The Pyraminx is the tetrahedron of the Platonic set: the simplest possible solid, four faces of four.
  • The world record single is 0.73 by Simon Kellum, standing 990 days.
  • The world record average is 1.14 by Lingkun Jiang (姜凌坤), standing 253 days.
  • 3,323,392 completed solves are on the official record in Pyraminx, from 11,546 competitions in 157 countries.
  • 129,321 people hold an official ranking. The median personal best among all of them is 9.61.
  • 49 people have ever gone under 1.00 seconds.
  • The world record has moved 20 times since records began in 2003.
  • 157 countries hold a national record, and the spread is wide: the fastest is 0.73, the most beatable 29.42.
  • Results begin in 2003; every figure on this page recomputes nightly from the official export.

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