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Józef Pietrucha

2×2 · top 1.9% of 186,767 all-time · competing since May 2022 · 2022PIET01

Józef Pietrucha has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.43, set at Żmigród Open 2023, puts him in the top 1.9% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 198th in Poland. Until November 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 9 competitions since May 2022, he has put 252 official solves on the record across eight events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 55% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.82 in May 2022 to 11.15, a 19% improvement. He has entered nine competitions, more competitions than 91% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 1.9% of 186,767 all-time
1.43
signature single · Żmigród Open 2023
252
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 55% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
2×21.433.21
top 1.9%198 / 5,422
3×311.1513.35
top 10.9%946 / 6,576
Pyraminx6.1310.16
top 21.0%1,189 / 4,406
4×455.361:03.50
top 31.2%845 / 2,851
5×51:52.67
top 44.5%593 / 1,442
3×3 one-handed33.3554.05
top 54.1%1,090 / 2,176
Skewb12.1919.64
top 66.9%1,936 / 2,810
6×65:59.50
early days — 1 solve616 / 669

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

UPP Poznań Cubing 2022: 13.82Cube4fun League VII Pawłowice 2022: 13.37Lake Cubing Szczecinek 2022: 11.86Elektryk Cube Race 2022: 12.23Przeźmierowo Winter Open 2022: 12.08Żmigród Open 2023: 11.15Cube4fun Wisła Masters 2023: 11.60Cube Factory Brzeziny 2023: 12.48Nowa Sól Open 2024: 13.8311.1513.8328 May 202216 Mar 2024

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 0.43 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.15 away.

Targets move as he improves.