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Marcin Bloch

2×2 · top 3.1% of 186,767 all-time · competing since March 2013 · 2013BLOC01

Marcin Bloch has been competing for 14 years. His best event is the 2×2: a personal-best single of 1.71, set at Riviera Cube Week 2015, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 186,767 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 301st in Poland. Until February 2008, no official 2×2 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since March 2013, he has put 1,362 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 83% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 17.96 in March 2013 to 8.74, a 51% improvement. Marcin has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

2×2
best event — top 3.1% of 186,767 all-time
1.71
signature single · Riviera Cube Week 2015
1,362
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 83% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
2×21.712.05
top 3.1%301 / 5,422
3×38.7410.39
top 4.3%415 / 6,576
Pyraminx3.357.04
top 4.9%349 / 4,406
4×434.6939.97
top 6.4%214 / 2,851
3×3 one-handed17.0820.37
top 12.8%307 / 2,176
5×51:26.971:36.96
top 24.9%352 / 1,442
Megaminx1:30.421:39.03
top 28.5%387 / 1,384
Skewb6.6510.95
top 30.9%1,076 / 2,810
7×74:39.155:06.90
top 44.2%213 / 546
6×63:16.773:26.39
top 48.9%304 / 669

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

Rumia Open 2013: 17.96Manufaktura Open 2013: 15.83GLS Summer 2013: 14.46Grudziadz Open 2013: 13.09GLS Autumn Reda 2013: 12.86Polish Open 2014: 13.52Rumia Open 2014: 10.28PLS Sopot 2014: 9.80Chojnice Open 2014: 11.49Kaliska Open 2014: 11.04Bydgoszcz Summer 2014: 12.00PLS Marina 2014: 11.25PLS Gdańsk 2014: 10.30Człuchów Panzer Cube 2014: 10.44PLS Autumn Reda 2014: 10.04PLS Szczecin 2014: 9.82GLS Winter 2014: 9.82Cubers Eve 2014: 8.74Riviera Cube Week 2015: 9.00Grudziadz Open 2015: 9.75Gdańsk Open 2015: 8.99Kaliska Open 2015: 9.04Manhattan Gdańsk Open 2015: 9.768.7417.9623 Mar 201312 Sep 2015

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 0.71 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as he improves.