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Julien Roux

3×3 · top 3.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2017 · 2017ROUX01

Julien Roux has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.22, set at Cube en Baie Open 2025, puts him in the top 3.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 191st in France. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 15 competitions since December 2017, he has put 769 official solves on the record across eleven events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 79% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.46 in December 2017 to 8.22, a 34% improvement. Julien has entered 15 competitions, more competitions than 95% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.2% of 284,439 all-time
8.22
signature single · Cube en Baie Open 2025
769
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 79% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×38.2211.73
top 3.2%191 / 4,746
2×22.443.16
top 8.3%324 / 3,074
Pyraminx4.266.70
top 9.0%236 / 2,148
5×51:09.911:18.71
top 11.5%99 / 1,024
4×441.0845.71
top 13.4%259 / 1,817
3×3 one-handed19.0323.05
top 17.9%294 / 1,490
7×73:35.413:50.06
top 21.7%57 / 372
6×62:23.832:31.59
top 22.5%77 / 437
Megaminx1:21.221:31.39
top 22.6%179 / 867
Skewb6.118.03
top 26.6%381 / 1,291
Square-140.351:06.41
top 65.8%357 / 540

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

Chouchenn Open 2017: 12.46Croissy Open 2018: 13.62Nantes Open 2018: 10.00FLIP Open 2018: 12.22Cube An Dro 2019: 13.02Carquef'Open 2022: 11.66Pllouvara Open 2023: 10.95Longjum'Open 2024: 11.60Pllouvara Open 2024: 9.68Carquef'Open 2024: 11.07Tigery Open 2024: 10.92Palais'Open 2024: 9.76Carquef'Open 2025: 9.76Cube en Baie Open 2025: 8.22Racines Cubik de Beutre 2026: 9.938.2213.6216 Dec 201718 Apr 2026

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.

  • Wilfrid Py — met in 105 rounds, finished ahead 30 times
  • Anton Piau — met in 92 rounds, finished ahead 10 times
  • Clément Valot — met in 90 rounds, finished ahead 26 times

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.22 away.
  • A sub-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as he improves.