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César Essling

Clock · top 0.12% of 32,817 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022ESSL01

César Essling has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 2.19, set at Algorithmes Artistiques Abrésiens 2025, puts him in the top 0.12% of the 32,817 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2nd in France. Until August 2024, no official Clock solve in the world had been that fast. Across 54 competitions since May 2022, he has put 2,210 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 11.32 in May 2022 to 6.09, a 46% improvement. He has entered 54 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 0.12% of 32,817 all-time
2.19
signature single · Algorithmes Artistiques Abrésiens 2025
2,210
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
Clock2.193.35
top 0.12%2 / 719
3×36.098.57
top 0.55%41 / 4,823
3×3 one-handed9.8412.21
top 0.96%22 / 1,508
Pyraminx2.974.85
top 3.5%102 / 2,185
2×22.172.98
top 6.0%257 / 3,129
Skewb3.327.80
top 6.7%106 / 1,309
4×439.7945.96
top 12.0%236 / 1,839
Square-117.5322.36
top 22.2%123 / 547

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

Tigery Open 2022: 11.32Angers ESEOpen 2022: 10.51Metz Open 2022: 11.07G'été Open 2022: 10.90Lisieux Open 2022: 9.37Hem MariCubik Winter Open A 2023: 9.78Pllouvara Open 2023: 9.07French Championship 2023: 9.60FLIP Open 2023: 9.24South Germany 2023: 9.02Rhein-Neckar Autumn 2023: 7.35Chelles Open 2024: 8.37Only Oullins Open 2024: 9.17French Championship 2024: 8.78Buchy Open 2024: 7.98Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 8.20Cube en Baie Open 2024: 8.32Luxembourg Nationals 2024: 8.50Palais'Open 2024: 9.00Crazy Cologne Cubing 2024: 8.82Chevry Open 2024: 8.27Flashback Collector Metz 2024: 7.11Just Judge Jura 2025: 9.74Chelles Open 2025: 7.43Eaubonne Open 2025: 7.93French Championship 2025: 7.13Longjum'Open 2025: 7.78Nanterre Open 2025: 7.16Cube en Baie Open 2025: 7.40Champagne Open 2025: 8.40Chevry Miel 2025: 7.63Palais'10Open 2025: 7.98Algorithmes Artistiques Abrésiens 2025: 8.04Harly Open 2025: 8.23Chelles Open 2026: 8.05French Championship 2026: 7.72Longjum'Open 2026: 9.11Gif-sûr de PR 2026: 8.52Rubik's WCA European Championship 2026: 8.29Cube en Baie Open 2026: 6.09Mirecourt Open 2026: 7.68Toy's Impact Hagondange 2026: 7.216.0911.3221 May 202217 Oct 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-2 Clock single — 18 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,419 people have one; it is 0.09 away.

Targets move as he improves.