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Marcel Martel

Pyraminx · top 4.2% of 129,321 all-time · competing since April 2025 · 2025MART42

Marcel Martel has been competing for a year. His best event is the Pyraminx: a personal-best single of 3.15, set at Championnat Canadien 2025, puts him in the top 4.2% of the 129,321 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 145th in Canada. Until February 2008, no official Pyraminx solve in the world had been that fast. Across 13 competitions since April 2025, he has put 272 official solves on the record across 17 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 15% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 4 DNFs. His 5×5 best has come down from 1:46.18 in April 2025 to 1:19.95, a 25% improvement. Marcel has entered 13 competitions, more competitions than 94% of everyone who has ever competed.

Pyraminx
best event — top 4.2% of 129,321 all-time
3.15
signature single · Championnat Canadien 2025
272
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
Pyraminx3.155.55
top 4.2%145 / 4,858
3×3 blindfolded39.062:51.26
top 6.5%26 / 351
3×310.2913.71
top 8.3%765 / 10,392
2×22.583.77
top 9.7%632 / 7,173
Skewb4.317.09
top 13.1%279 / 2,907
4×445.2354.14
top 18.6%472 / 3,118
7×73:26.973:53.41
top 18.8%71 / 503
4×4 blindfolded4:37.14—
top 18.8%6 / 60
5×51:19.951:22.56
top 19.0%230 / 1,499
6×62:23.002:31.44
top 22.0%112 / 665
Clock9.4215.27
top 22.1%192 / 1,029
5×5 blindfolded11:56.00—
early days — 3 solves5 / 30
Square-120.1437.23
top 28.3%243 / 952
Megaminx2:05.602:24.02
top 48.9%556 / 1,375
3×3 one-handed31.4838.28
top 50.0%1,160 / 2,620
3×3 Multi-Blind2 of 2 cubes · 13:52—
early days — 2 solves77 / 112
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves48.33
top 71.5%214 / 283

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

Gros Jouets à Montréal 2025: 1:46.18Open de Gatineau 2025: 1:33.76Championnat Canadien 2025: 1:27.14Ottawa Big Cubes 2025: 1:28.63Pickering NxNxN Winter 2026: 1:23.14Gros Jouets à Montréal 2026: 1:20.99Championnat Québécois 2026: 1:19.951:19.951:46.1819 Apr 20258 May 2026

Best single per competition, 5×5. 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-3 Pyraminx single — 4,700 people have one; it is 0.15 away.
  • A sub-30 3×3 blindfolded single — 501 people have one; it is 9.06 away.

Targets move as he improves.