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Igor Kowalczyk

3×3 one-handed · top 0.54% of 73,695 all-time · competing since December 2013 · 2013KOWA04

Igor Kowalczyk has been competing for 13 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 9.07, set at Speed Days Kraśnik 2017, puts him in the top 0.54% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 27th in Poland. Until November 2013, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 44 competitions since December 2013, he has put 1,930 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.42 in December 2013 to 8.13, a 60% improvement. Igor has entered 44 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.54% of 73,695 all-time
9.07
signature single · Speed Days Kraśnik 2017
1,930
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×3 one-handed9.0712.41
top 0.54%27 / 2,176
2×21.663.41
top 2.9%274 / 5,422
3×38.139.86
top 3.0%313 / 6,576
Pyraminx3.886.49
top 7.1%485 / 4,406
Skewb3.738.30
top 9.1%401 / 2,810
3×3 Fewest Moves29 moves34.00
top 12.2%78 / 466
4×448.7854.45
top 23.1%651 / 2,851
Megaminx3:03.96—
top 75.8%1,084 / 1,384
5×53:01.02—
top 78.4%1,143 / 1,442
Clock28.24—
top 82.1%1,277 / 1,549
Square-11:04.43—
top 86.3%853 / 1,002

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

Radom Open 2013: 20.42Mielec Cube Day 2014: 16.07Kielce Cube Attack 2014: 12.46Big Cube Krasnik 2014: 13.81Świdnik Open 2015: 12.36ŚLS Gliwice 2015: 11.30Polish Open 2015: 10.66ŚLS Zawiercie 2015: 11.07Speed Days Kraśnik 2015: 9.53Radomsko Cube Theory 2015: 9.08Kaliska Open 2015: 10.92Manhattan Gdańsk Open 2015: 10.57Warsaw Cube Masters 2015: 9.82Polish Championship 2015: 10.93Gdańsk Rubik's Cube Day 2015: 9.81Santa Claus Cube Race 2015: 8.33Kaskada Open 2016: 10.48Grudziądz Open 2016: 8.32GLS Cup II 2016: 9.08Kaliska Open 2016: 10.00European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 8.46Czech Open 2016: 10.89II Masovian Open Płock 2016: 9.31WLS Jesień 2016: 9.63Polish Championship 2016: 8.13Santa Claus Cube Race 2016: 8.66Olsztyn Open 2017: 8.82B.O.N.D. Open 2017: 9.65Staszic Open 2017: 8.14Piotrków Trybunalski 2017: 9.53ŚLS Jastrzębie Zdrój 2017: 8.58Slovakian Cube Day 2017: 9.44ŚLS Będzin Open 2017: 8.82Speed Days Kraśnik 2017: 9.40World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 8.73ŚLS Zawiercie 2017: 8.84DLS Wrzesień 2017: 9.04Polish Open 2017: 9.72Speed Days Kielce 2017: 9.89Polish Nationals 2017: 8.20CFL Santa Claus Cube Race 2017: 9.94Warsaw Cube Masters 2018: 8.79Dragon Cubing 2018: 9.378.1320.4214 Dec 201322 Sep 2018

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-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 1.07 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.66 away.

Targets move as he improves.