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Adam Pugner

3×3 · top 6.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since July 2014 · 2014PUGN01

Adam Pugner has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 9.81, set at Prague Open 2016, puts him in the top 6.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 111th in the Czech Republic. Until October 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since July 2014, he has put 704 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 15.68 in July 2014 to 9.81, a 37% improvement. Adam has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 6.9% of 284,439 all-time
9.81
signature single · Prague Open 2016
704
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCzech Republic
3×39.8110.10
top 6.9%111 / 787
3×3 one-handed14.8017.58
top 7.7%26 / 308
Pyraminx4.667.09
top 11.2%114 / 460
2×23.384.28
top 18.7%209 / 644
4×448.8954.85
top 23.3%127 / 440
Skewb5.698.06
top 23.4%116 / 320
5×51:49.142:13.09
top 42.0%118 / 248
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves
early days — 1 solve41 / 79
Clock15.8935.61
top 51.4%108 / 166
6×65:17.00
early days — 3 solves112 / 122
7×77:55.63
early days — 3 solves93 / 99

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

Czech Open 2014: 15.68Prague Open 2014: 15.55Bratislava Open 2014: 15.29Brno Open 2015: 12.04Polish Open 2015: 12.70Erfurt Open 2015: 12.02Croatian Open 2015: 11.30Czech Open 2015: 11.19Prague Open 2015: 11.21Brno Open 2016: 10.18Hungarian Nationals 2016: 11.41European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 11.04Czech Open 2016: 10.02Prague Open 2016: 9.81Prague Open 2017: 10.259.8115.6811 Jul 201430 Sep 2017

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 1.81 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 2.80 away.

Targets move as he improves.