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Damian Malinowski

Skewb · top 4.0% of 73,281 all-time · competing since April 2015 · 2015MALI01

Damian Malinowski has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.79, set at Piotrków Trybunalski 2017, puts him in the top 4.0% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 203rd in Poland. Until February 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 27 competitions since April 2015, he has put 923 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 67% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:24.13 in April 2015 to 10.28, an 88% improvement. Damian has entered 27 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 4.0% of 73,281 all-time
2.79
signature single · Piotrków Trybunalski 2017
923
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 67% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
Skewb2.796.11
top 4.0%203 / 2,810
2×22.344.23
top 7.4%580 / 5,422
3×310.2814.60
top 8.3%730 / 6,576
Pyraminx4.867.17
top 12.3%772 / 4,406
3×3 one-handed19.8225.35
top 20.0%457 / 2,176
4×455.081:08.45
top 30.8%833 / 2,851
Square-127.0434.89
top 43.6%430 / 1,002
5×52:13.462:49.67
top 57.3%785 / 1,442
Megaminx2:24.25—
top 58.5%816 / 1,384
3×3 Fewest Moves46 moves—
top 68.6%333 / 466
Clock23.90—
top 74.5%1,156 / 1,549

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

Gdańsk Open 2015: 1:24.13Radomsko Cube Theory 2015: 30.38Kaliska Open 2015: 27.02Warsaw Cube Masters 2015: 21.00Masovian Open 2015: 26.06Santa Claus Cube Race 2015: 19.24GLS Cup I 2016: 17.64Grudziądz Open 2016: 18.14GLS Cup II 2016: 14.90WLS Wiosna 2016: 19.81Łódź Cubing Summer 2016: 16.87GLS Cup III 2016: 17.08Kaliska Open 2016: 15.96II Masovian Open Płock 2016: 15.15GLS Cup Final 2016: 18.19Santa Claus Cube Race 2016: 15.45Olsztyn Open 2017: 15.52GLS Cup I 2017: 15.61Piotrków Trybunalski 2017: 14.91GLS Cup II 2017: 14.41DLS Czerwiec 2017: 13.23GLS Cup III 2017: 15.12GLS Cup IV 2017: 14.25DLS Wrzesień 2017: 14.18GLS Cup V 2017: 13.06GLS Final 2017: 10.28CFL Santa Claus Cube Race 2017: 12.7310.281:24.1318 Apr 201516 Dec 2017

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 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.34 away.

Targets move as he improves.