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Alban Marchal

4×4 · top 12.9% of 83,917 all-time · competing since April 2009 · 2009MARC01

Alban Marchal has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the 4×4: a personal-best single of 40.68, set at Elsass Open 2018, puts him in the top 12.9% of the 83,917 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 253rd in France. Across 22 competitions since April 2009, he has put 892 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 22.22 in April 2009 to 12.18, a 45% improvement. Alban has entered 22 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

4×4
best event — top 12.9% of 83,917 all-time
40.68
signature single · Elsass Open 2018
892
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
4×440.6847.47
top 12.9%253 / 1,817
3×312.1815.33
top 14.5%730 / 4,746
3×3 one-handed18.3823.35
top 16.1%266 / 1,490
2×23.225.48
top 16.8%600 / 3,074
5×51:35.911:46.17
top 32.2%300 / 1,024
Pyraminx8.8114.79
top 43.2%997 / 2,148
6×63:46.294:23.50
top 60.9%245 / 437
7×75:57.166:02.00
top 67.0%218 / 372
Megaminx3:43.484:03.55
top 86.8%684 / 867
Clock32.6746.19
top 87.5%623 / 714

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

French Championship 2009: 22.22French Championship 2010: 21.56Neptune Open 2011: 19.19Vesoul Open 2011: 15.05Lyon Open 2011: 15.97Magic Open 2011: 14.63French Championship 2012: 16.06Vesoul Open Rubik 2012: 15.44Haute-Patate Open 2012: 13.80Phalsbourg Open 2012: 14.32Galeries Dorian Open 2013: 15.56French Open 2013: 14.40Champagne Summer Open 2013: 15.27Phalsbourg Open 2013: 12.18French Championship 2014: 14.59Montbéliard Open 2016: 12.57World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 14.57Swisscubing Cup Final 2017: 13.21Nancy Open 2017: 13.53Belfort Open 2018: 12.95French Championship 2018: 13.57Elsass Open 2018: 13.7712.1822.2210 Apr 200928 Apr 2018

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-40 4×4 single — 10,180 people have one; it is 0.68 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 0.18 away.

Targets move as he improves.