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Bartłomiej Zięba

3×3 · top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2013 · 2013ZIEB01

Bartłomiej Zięba has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.06, set at Santa Claus Cube Race 2015, puts him in the top 2.9% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 302nd in Poland. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since October 2013, he has put 412 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. That figure sets aside his 7 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.75 in October 2013 to 8.06, a 37% improvement. He has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 2.9% of 284,439 all-time
8.06
signature single · Santa Claus Cube Race 2015
412
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×38.0610.75
top 2.9%302 / 6,576
3×3 one-handed12.1114.40
top 3.1%89 / 2,176
4×435.1446.08
top 6.8%223 / 2,851
Pyraminx5.137.63
top 14.0%852 / 4,406
2×23.055.30
top 14.8%1,077 / 5,422
5×51:42.711:52.88
top 37.4%511 / 1,442
3×3 blindfolded4:04.42
early days — 1 solve335 / 466
Skewb13.6217.78
top 73.3%2,112 / 2,810

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

SLS Zaglebie 2013: 12.75Santa Claus Cube Race 2014: 9.76ŚLS Gliwice 2015: 10.44Polish Open 2015: 9.13ŚLS Zawiercie 2015: 10.14SLS Rybnik 2015: 9.80ŚLS Sosnowiec 2015: 10.50ŚLS Wodzisław Śląski 2015: 9.94Santa Claus Cube Race 2015: 8.06Beskidy Cubing Day 2016: 10.658.0612.7526 Oct 20139 Jan 2016

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 0.06 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.