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Frédéric Meinnel

2×2 · top 3.6% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2008 · 2008MEIN01

Frédéric Meinnel has been competing for 18 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.81, set at French Championship 2010, puts him in the top 3.6% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 155th in France. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 10 competitions since March 2008, he has put 331 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 59% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 18.36 in March 2008 to 10.16, a 45% improvement. He has entered ten competitions, more competitions than 92% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.6% of 186,767 all-time
1.81
signature single · French Championship 2010
331
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 59% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
2×21.813.53
top 3.6%155 / 3,074
3×310.1612.99
top 7.9%427 / 4,746
3×3 Fewest Moves30 moves
early days — 3 solves80 / 367
3×3 one-handed19.7125.02
top 19.7%312 / 1,490
4×450.9359.85
top 25.9%466 / 1,817
5×52:31.434:17.40
top 66.5%621 / 1,024
Pyraminx14.5618.82
top 80.2%1,732 / 2,148
Megaminx4:02.93
early days — 1 solve729 / 867
Square-11:40.942:04.16
top 96.9%518 / 540
3×3 blindfolded9:53.93
early days — 1 solve428 / 434

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 Open 2008: 18.36Nantes Open 2008: 14.90French Open 2009: 13.08French Championship 2009: 11.97Nantes Open 2009: 12.56Dauphiné Open 2009: 10.16Clermont Open 2009: 11.63French Open 2010: 10.97French Championship 2010: 12.77World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 12.0410.1618.3615 Mar 200813 Jul 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-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.81 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.16 away.

Targets move as he improves.