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Louis Sarthou

3×3 Fewest Moves · top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time · competing since June 2012 · 2012SART01

Louis Sarthou has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 3×3 Fewest Moves: a personal-best single of 18 moves, set at Aldeilla FMC Open 2023, puts him in the top 0.17% of the 12,294 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1st in France. Across 37 competitions since June 2012, he has put 981 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one; 87% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.28 in June 2012 to 8.29, a 38% improvement. Louis has entered 37 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Fewest Moves
best event — top 0.17% of 12,294 all-time
18 moves
signature single · Aldeilla FMC Open 2023
981
official solves on the record
15%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 87% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingFrance
3×3 Fewest Moves18 moves22.00
top 0.17%1 / 367
2×21.193.35
top 1.0%38 / 3,074
3×38.299.47
top 3.3%200 / 4,746
4×432.2839.65
top 4.4%83 / 1,817
Megaminx59.691:07.08
top 9.8%79 / 867
3×3 one-handed18.8621.49
top 17.4%288 / 1,490
5×51:18.721:26.81
top 18.1%164 / 1,024
Pyraminx8.9713.60
top 44.6%1,026 / 2,148
3×3 blindfolded5:06.306:44.97
top 80.4%342 / 434

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

La Montagne Open 2012: 13.28Naoned Open 2012: 11.96French Championship 2013: 12.58La Montagne Open 2013: 10.56Rubik's Cube European Championships 2014: 10.99FLIP Open 2015: 8.32French Championship 2016: 10.08European Rubik's Cube Championship 2016: 9.22World Rubik's Cube Championship 2017: 11.34Champagne Open 2018: 8.29Speedcub'Eirb Open 2019: 9.57French Championship 2019: 9.94Garidech'Open 2021: 8.38Carquef'Open 2022: 8.48Rubik's WCA European Championship 2022: 9.65FLIP Open 2022: 9.13French Championship 2022: 9.54Garidech Open 2022: 9.19Carquef'Open 2023: 8.84French Championship 2023: 9.03Aldeilla FMC Open 2023: 8.32Gesté Une Fois 2024: 9.51Garidech Open 2024: 8.39Thouaré Open 2025: 9.16French Championship 2026: 8.598.2913.2830 Jun 20124 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.

Next targets

  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.19 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.29 away.

Targets move as he improves.