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Antoine Barrial

3×3 · top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since September 2013 · 2013BARR03

Antoine Barrial has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 7.74, set at French Championship 2023, puts him in the top 2.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 150th in France. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 32 competitions since September 2013, he has put 500 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.97 in September 2013 to 7.74, a 72% improvement. Antoine has entered 32 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.4% of 284,439 all-time
7.74
signature single · French Championship 2023
500
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×37.7410.07
top 2.4%150 / 4,746
2×22.214.23
top 6.3%259 / 3,074
4×446.2653.53
top 19.9%368 / 1,817
3×3 blindfolded7:41.63
early days — 1 solve404 / 434

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

Champagne Summer Open 2013: 27.97Champagne Summer Open 2014: 17.31Champagne Open 2015: 10.44Champagne Open 2016: 11.98World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 10.40Champagne Open 2017: 8.95Stenay Open 2018: 9.75Hem MariCubik Open 2018: 9.00FLIP Open 2018: 10.31Sens Open 2018: 8.18Champagne Open 2018: 9.78Paris Open 2018: 9.53Open de Lumes 2019: 10.54Champagne Open 2019: 9.92Sézanne Open 2022: 10.34Champagne Open 2022: 9.11Slow N Spooky Open 2022: 9.90Dontrien Open 2023: 8.89French Championship 2023: 7.74Open de Lumes 2023: 8.55Sézanne Open 2023: 8.49Champagne Open 2023: 9.13Chanteloup Open 2023: 8.17Hayange Open 2024: 8.54Longjum'Open 2024: 8.70Chelles Open 2024: 9.14Polytechnique Open 2024: 9.11French Championship 2024: 8.38 HEM MariCubik Open 2024: 9.04Douvrin Open 2024: 8.21Champagne Open 2024: 7.74Stenay Que le Début 2026: 9.687.7427.9714 Sep 201331 Jan 2026

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 1.74 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.21 away.

Targets move as he improves.