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Diarmuid Leo Clarke

Pyraminx · top 3.1% of 129,321 all-time · competing since July 2022 · 2022CLAR14

Diarmuid Leo Clarke has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 2.84, set at Don't Fail Kinsale 2023, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 47th in Ireland. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since July 2022, he has put 482 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one; 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.63 in July 2022 to 13.48, a 47% improvement. Diarmuid has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 3.1% of 129,321 all-time
2.84
signature single · Don't Fail Kinsale 2023
482
official solves on the record
16%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIreland
Pyraminx2.844.51
top 3.1%47 / 911
2×22.554.26
top 9.4%138 / 1,163
3×313.4815.05
top 19.1%270 / 1,427
Skewb5.429.50
top 21.4%150 / 624
3×3 one-handed26.4336.53
top 37.9%142 / 448
4×41:17.891:54.49
top 54.2%283 / 579
Megaminx2:23.79
top 58.3%168 / 283
Clock21.5527.79
top 68.9%245 / 331
Square-11:01.83
early days — 1 solve172 / 194

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

Don't DNF Dublin 2022: 25.63Dublin Open Sunday 2022: 25.61Cubing in Cill Chainnigh 2022: 23.51Irish Championship 2022: 21.20Turnin' in Termonfeckin Saturday 2023: 13.49Don't Lockup Loch Garman 2023: 13.48Irish Championship 2023: 15.28Cubing with the Cats Sunday 2023: 17.43Dublin Summer Solving Saturday 2023: 14.12Mayo Cubing 2023: 15.57Don't Fail Kinsale 2023: 16.31Corduff Cubing Sunday 2024: 15.66Turnin' Offaly Fast 2024: 17.1313.4825.632 Jul 202216 Mar 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.

  • CJ Furey — met in 101 rounds, finished ahead 3 times
  • Ronan Finke — met in 99 rounds, finished ahead 15 times
  • Cormac Finke — met in 87 rounds, finished ahead 47 times

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Pyraminx single — 1,476 people have one; it is 0.84 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.55 away.

Targets move as he improves.