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Corentin Niort

3×3 · top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since January 2013 · 2013NIOR02

Corentin Niort has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.35, set at Talence Open 2023, puts him in the top 3.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 207th in France. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since January 2013, he has put 241 official solves on the record across five events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.65 in January 2013 to 8.35, a 50% improvement. Corentin has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.4% of 284,439 all-time
8.35
signature single · Talence Open 2023
241
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×38.3511.16
top 3.4%207 / 4,746
2×22.784.25
top 11.8%429 / 3,074
4×451.4558.52
top 26.5%480 / 1,817
3×3 one-handed24.1232.98
top 31.8%476 / 1,490
5×53:29.04
early days — 3 solves832 / 1,024

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

MIL Open 2013: 16.65Altasierra 2017: 11.53Taiwan Championship 2017: 10.58FLIP Open 2022: 9.90Talence Open 2023: 8.35Longjum'Open 2024: 9.54Charente Open 2024: 10.39Bayonne Atoutcubes Open 2024: 10.62Carquef'Open 2024: 9.56Rubik's WCA European Championship 2024: 11.298.3516.6512 Jan 201325 Jul 2024

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 0.35 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.78 away.

Targets move as he improves.