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Manuel Zwahlen

Pyraminx · top 49.7% of 129,321 all-time · competing since March 2015 · 2015ZWAH01

Manuel Zwahlen has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 9.58, set at Chottu Skips 2016, puts him in the top 49.7% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 363rd in Switzerland. Across 4 competitions since March 2015, he has put 76 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 20% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 2 DNFs. His 3×3 best has come down from 39.09 in March 2015 to 23.84, a 39% improvement. Manuel has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 49.7% of 129,321 all-time
9.58
signature single · Chottu Skips 2016
76
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingSwitzerland
Pyraminx9.5812.76
top 49.7%363 / 655
3×323.8431.17
top 50.0%600 / 1,197
2×28.509.69
top 70.8%653 / 913
Skewb15.6820.76
top 80.4%326 / 388
4×42:15.37
early days — 3 solves411 / 462
5×54:29.52
early days — 1 solve250 / 266

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

Swiss Nationals 2015: 39.09SwissScience Open 2015: 27.15Chottu Skips 2016: 25.95Wiler Würfelfest 2016: 23.8423.8439.0929 Mar 20152 Apr 2016

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-8 Pyraminx single — 46,752 people have one; it is 1.58 away.
  • A sub-20 3×3 single — 113,584 people have one; it is 3.84 away.

Targets move as he improves.