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Jochen Spies

Pyraminx · top 14.8% of 129,321 all-time · competing since January 2010 · 2010SPIE01

Jochen Spies has been competing for 17 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 5.25, set at Eindhoven Open 2012, puts him in the top 14.8% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 381st in Germany. Across 23 competitions since January 2010, he has put 292 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 17% around a typical one; 95% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His Pyraminx best has come down from 21.08 in January 2010 to 5.25, a 75% improvement. Jochen has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 14.8% of 129,321 all-time
5.25
signature single · Eindhoven Open 2012
292
official solves on the record
17%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 95% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingGermany
Pyraminx5.257.46
top 14.8%381 / 1,987
2×25.3312.78
top 43.4%1,408 / 2,875
3×324.1927.96
top 50.8%2,376 / 4,109
Clock29.81
early days — 1 solve553 / 634

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

Aachen Open 2010: 21.08Benelux Open 2010: 19.19German Open 2010: 15.21Düsseldorf Open 2010: 14.83German Nationals 2010: 21.88Dutch Nationals 2010: 15.97Aachen Open 2011: 14.93Altbier 2011: 9.63NEMO Amsterdam Open 2011: 12.33German Open 2011: 13.50Düsseldorf Open 2011: 9.66Dutch Open 2011: 9.55Spols Open 2011: 6.91German Nationals 2011: 10.30Altbier 2012: 8.13Twente Open 2012: 7.27German Open 2012: 8.09Aachen Summer Open 2012: 6.75Eindhoven Open 2012: 5.25German Nationals 2012: 7.41Hasselt Open 2012: 6.16German Nationals 2013: 6.22German Nationals 2014: 7.435.2521.8816 Jan 20106 Sep 2014

Best single per competition, Pyraminx. 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-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.25 away.
  • A sub-5 2×2 single — 73,413 people have one; it is 0.33 away.

Targets move as he improves.