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Florian Hainbucher

3×3 · top 3.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since January 2022 · 2022HAIN01

Florian Hainbucher has been competing for 5 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.47, set at Borovany End of Summer 2023, puts him in the top 3.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 24th in Austria. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 8 competitions since January 2022, he has put 330 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 88% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.83 in January 2022 to 8.47, a 34% improvement. Florian has entered eight competitions, more competitions than 90% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.7% of 288,433 all-time
8.47
signature single · Borovany End of Summer 2023
330
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 88% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingAustria
3×38.4710.56
top 3.7%24 / 541
3×3 one-handed14.8817.38
top 8.0%18 / 189
2×22.563.96
top 9.6%65 / 402
4×440.9044.18
top 13.2%35 / 227
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves37.00
top 20.4%15 / 53
5×51:22.581:26.14
top 21.3%34 / 121
Skewb5.8513.02
top 24.7%51 / 163
Pyraminx7.2710.90
top 30.1%97 / 263
Square-121.7432.73
top 32.0%27 / 74
6×62:55.593:08.83
top 38.9%30 / 66
7×75:21.98—
early days — 2 solves40 / 54

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

Bologna New Year 2022: 12.83AssoKappa Meets Speedcubing 2022: 10.47Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 10.82Vienna Open 2022: 9.42Franconia Mini Open A 2023: 8.89Vienna Fasching 2023: 9.25Wiener Frühling 2023: 8.89Borovany End of Summer 2023: 8.478.4712.832 Jan 20222 Sep 2023

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.

  • Simon Praschl — met in 54 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
  • Jan Riedl — met in 50 rounds, finished ahead 6 times
  • Bence Barát — met in 44 rounds, finished ahead 3 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.47 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,239 people have one; it is 2.88 away.

Targets move as he improves.