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Lionel Brunin

2×2 · top 9.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since December 2016 · 2016BRUN10

Lionel Brunin has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 2.52, set at Nancy Open 2016, puts him in the top 9.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 87th in Belgium. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 3 competitions since December 2016, he has put 113 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. Lionel has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 9.1% of 186,767 all-time
2.52
signature single · Nancy Open 2016
113
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingBelgium
2×22.526.01
top 9.1%87 / 777
3×311.9013.34
top 13.6%168 / 1,094
Skewb4.727.27
top 16.1%73 / 394
4×447.9648.74
top 22.1%104 / 459
5×51:41.931:51.56
top 36.8%76 / 246
3×3 one-handed34.0940.32
top 55.6%168 / 314
Megaminx2:48.58
early days — 2 solves136 / 197
6×64:25.86
early days — 1 solve72 / 119
7×79:25.62
early days — 1 solve87 / 91

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

Nancy Open 2016: 2.52French Championship 2017: 5.08Seraing Open 2019: 4.592.525.083 Dec 201626 Oct 2019

Best single per competition, 2×2. 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-2 2×2 single — 8,848 people have one; it is 0.52 away.
  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 1.90 away.

Targets move as he improves.