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François Darmon

Clock · top 39.7% of 32,048 all-time · competing since May 2023 · 2023DARM01

François Darmon has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the Clock: a personal-best single of 13.02, set at Châteaubourg Open 2025, puts him in the top 39.7% of the 32,048 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 279th in France. Across 21 competitions since May 2023, he has put 349 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 23% around a typical one; 99% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 34.58 in May 2023 to 28.36, an 18% improvement. He has entered 21 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Clock
best event — top 39.7% of 32,048 all-time
13.02
signature single · Châteaubourg Open 2025
349
official solves on the record
23%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 99% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
Clock13.0216.79
top 39.7%279 / 714
Skewb7.8517.20
top 40.1%549 / 1,291
2×25.2411.99
top 42.3%1,346 / 3,074
3×328.3636.84
top 59.5%2,615 / 4,746
4×41:32.272:05.28
top 65.3%1,118 / 1,817
3×3 blindfolded4:53.98—
early days — 2 solves336 / 434
5×53:33.66—
top 87.2%841 / 1,024
Pyraminx18.7831.34
top 91.2%1,954 / 2,148
6×66:53.457:28.88
top 94.9%415 / 437
7×710:28.00—
early days — 1 solve348 / 372

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

French Championship 2023: 34.58Sens Open 2023: 44.28Couffouleux Open 2023: 42.75Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2023: 36.49Talence Open 2023: 43.68Longjum'Open 2024: 28.36Chelles Open 2024: 38.44Polytechnique Open 2024: 37.83French Championship 2024: 34.58Tigery Open 2024: 33.23Cube en Baie Open 2024: 31.20Palais'Open 2024: 38.21Chevry Open 2024: 39.28Chanteloup Open 2025: 32.21French Championship 2025: 33.16Rheinland-Pfalz Open 2025: 33.36Cube en Baie Open 2025: 31.79Châteaubourg Open 2025: 34.06French Championship 2026: 29.54Cube en Baie Open 2026: 32.6228.3644.286 May 202314 Aug 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-12 Clock single — 11,202 people have one; it is 1.02 away.
  • A sub-6 Skewb single — 18,841 people have one; it is 1.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.