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Axel Pauwels

Skewb · top 20.3% of 73,281 all-time · competing since March 2013 · 2013PAUW01

Axel Pauwels has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 5.28, set at Zeeland Open 2016, puts him in the top 20.3% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 94th in Belgium. Across 14 competitions since March 2013, he has put 511 official solves on the record across eleven 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 Pyraminx best has come down from 24.08 in March 2013 to 6.30, a 74% improvement. Axel has entered 14 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 20.3% of 73,281 all-time
5.28
signature single · Zeeland Open 2016
511
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 standingBelgium
Skewb5.2814.89
top 20.3%94 / 394
Pyraminx6.3010.35
top 22.2%160 / 589
3×315.8818.63
top 27.4%339 / 1,094
2×24.196.65
top 28.9%266 / 777
5×52:09.312:27.19
top 55.0%121 / 246
4×41:21.051:29.49
top 56.8%249 / 459
3×3 Fewest Moves43 moves
top 59.0%43 / 69
Clock18.7822.04
top 61.1%116 / 180
Megaminx3:05.86
top 76.3%153 / 197
6×64:55.845:11.44
top 80.8%86 / 119
7×77:39.83
top 85.9%72 / 91

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

Zonhoven Open 2013: 24.08Minx Open 2013: 10.08N8W8 Summer 2013: 10.46Hasselt Open 2013: 8.50Minx Open 2014: 9.40Zonhoven Open 2014: 10.16N8W8 Summer 2014: 6.30Hasselt Open 2014: 8.63Zonhoven Open 2015: 8.90N8W8 Summer 2015: 7.86German Big Cube Open 2015: 6.88Belgium Summer 2015: 8.66Zeeland Open 2016: 11.22N8W8 Summer 2016: 9.846.3024.082 Mar 20136 Aug 2016

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-5 Skewb single — 13,285 people have one; it is 0.28 away.
  • A sub-6 Pyraminx single — 25,870 people have one; it is 0.30 away.

Targets move as he improves.