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Ioannis Polyzos

2×2 · top 2.8% of 186,767 all-time · competing since July 2016 · 2016POLY01

Ioannis Polyzos has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.64, set at Athens SNFestival Cubing 2019, puts him in the top 2.8% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 35th in Greece. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 7 competitions since July 2016, he has put 274 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 91% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.22 in July 2016 to 9.75, a 40% improvement. Ioannis has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 2.8% of 186,767 all-time
1.64
signature single · Athens SNFestival Cubing 2019
274
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 91% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGreece
2×21.644.41
top 2.8%35 / 733
3×39.7511.71
top 6.8%99 / 982
Pyraminx4.278.00
top 9.0%57 / 524
3×3 one-handed20.1722.25
top 20.9%57 / 288
4×41:17.701:28.22
top 54.0%203 / 384
3×3 blindfolded3:46.83
early days — 2 solves20 / 40
3×3 Fewest Moves45 moves
early days — 2 solves39 / 77

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

European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 16.22Greece Winter Open 2016: 11.47Greece Spring Open 2017: 11.02Greece New Year 2018: 11.06Greece Autumn 2018: 11.29Athens SNFestival Cubing 2019: 9.759.7516.2215 Jul 201629 Jun 2019

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 0.64 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.75 away.

Targets move as he improves.