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Katharina Knaus

Pyraminx · top 65.2% of 129,321 all-time · competing since February 2015 · 2015KNAU01

Katharina Knaus has been competing for 12 years. Her best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 11.69, set at European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016, puts her in the top 65.2% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 466th in Switzerland. Across 13 competitions since February 2015, she has put 122 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 70% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. That figure sets aside her 4 DNFs. Her 3×3 best has come down from 1:12.35 in February 2015 to 40.88, a 43% improvement. Katharina has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 65.2% of 129,321 all-time
11.69
signature single · European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016
122
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 70% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSwitzerland
Pyraminx11.6918.25
top 65.2%466 / 655
2×28.5320.44
top 71.0%658 / 913
3×340.8852.16
top 77.9%934 / 1,197
4×42:49.533:27.49
top 95.2%439 / 462

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

Hessen Open 2015: 1:12.35Swiss Nationals 2015: 58.21ŚLS Sosnowiec 2015: 56.64SwissScience Open 2015: 58.06Würfelä im Drachenäscht 2015: 55.09Wiler Würfelfest 2016: 54.65OFFA-Meisterschaft 2016: 45.35Big CubingItaly 2016: 51.27Zurich Open 2016: 42.97European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 41.50Swiss Nationals 2016: 40.88Musée suisse du jeu 2016: 44.16Zurich Open 2017: 54.8040.881:12.3521 Feb 201516 Sep 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 her.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 Pyraminx single — 68,530 people have one; it is 1.69 away.
  • A sub-8 2×2 single — 126,624 people have one; it is 0.53 away.

Targets move as she improves.