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Caroline Paeßens

3×3 · top 61.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2009 · 2009PAES01

Caroline Paeßens has been competing for 18 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 29.18, set at World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009, puts her in the top 61.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,773rd in Germany. Across 9 competitions since January 2009, she has put 83 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one, an early reading from 9 counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 4 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:00.78 in January 2009 to 29.18, a 52% improvement. Caroline has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 61.1% of 284,439 all-time
29.18
signature single · World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009
83
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
3×329.1838.59
top 61.1%2,773 / 4,109
2×29.6423.24
top 76.5%2,376 / 2,875
Pyraminx13.7117.59
top 76.5%1,609 / 1,987
4×42:32.84
top 92.4%1,774 / 1,934

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

Aachen Open 2009: 1:00.78German Open 2009: 47.91World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 29.18Essen Open 2009: 32.03Aachen Open 2010: 38.71German Open 2010: 36.53Alania Open 2010: 30.15Aachen Open 2011: 31.28Aachen Summer Open 2012: 36.0929.181:00.7810 Jan 200923 Jun 2012

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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-25 3×3 single — 149,621 people have one; it is 4.18 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 1.64 away.

Targets move as she improves.