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Jean-Louis Mathieu

3×3 · top 45.0% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2006 · 2006MATH01

Jean-Louis Mathieu has been competing for 20 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 21.83, set at Magic Open 2011, puts him in the top 45.0% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,002nd in France. Across 50 competitions since April 2006, he has put 618 official solves on the record across seven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 78% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 1:33.50 in April 2006 to 21.83, a 77% improvement. He has entered 50 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 45.0% of 284,439 all-time
21.83
signature single · Magic Open 2011
618
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 78% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×321.8325.62
top 45.0%2,002 / 4,746
2×25.8312.89
top 49.1%1,516 / 3,074
3×3 one-handed35.6351.50
top 58.4%824 / 1,490
Clock21.5926.40
top 69.0%486 / 714
5×53:13.593:32.36
top 82.3%787 / 1,024
4×42:21.582:48.94
top 89.6%1,554 / 1,817
3×3 blindfolded7:21.59—
top 93.1%399 / 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 Championship 2006: 1:33.50European Rubik's Cube Championship 2006: 58.31Dutch Open 2006: 50.40Roissy competition 2007: 47.73Belgian Open 2007: 53.27French Championship 2007: 44.14German Open 2007: 40.18Lyon Open 2007: 30.62World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007: 32.81Dutch Open 2007: 32.90UK Open 2007: 34.10Belgian Open 2008: 35.84Benelux Open 2008: 32.05French Open 2008: 31.63French Championship 2008: 31.77German Open 2008: 32.02Nantes Open 2008: 41.18Dutch Masters 2008: 34.69European Championship 2008: 40.27Dutch Open 2008: 36.88Hungarian Open 2008: 41.46French Championship 2009: 25.28German Open 2009: 31.05UK Masters 2009: 26.63World Rubik's Cube Championship 2009: 29.02French Open 2010: 29.86French Championship 2010: 27.90German Open 2010: 28.36Galeries Lafayette Open 2010: 30.27European Rubik's Cube Championship 2010: 24.47French Open 2011: 27.30French Championship 2011: 23.19Vesoul Open 2011: 23.46Galeries Lafayette Open 2011: 24.44World Rubik's Cube Championship 2011: 22.33Dutch Open 2011: 26.90Magic Open 2011: 21.83French Championship 2012: 26.53FLIP Open 2012: 23.06Galeries Lafayette Open 2012: 22.13Cannes Open 2013: 21.94FLIP Open 2013: 25.02World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 22.77Dutch Open 2013: 28.69Cannes Open 2014: 26.69FLIP Rubik Open 2016: 28.20World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 27.6621.831:33.5020 Apr 200613 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-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 1.83 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.83 away.

Targets move as he improves.