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Marcin Kowalczyk

3×3 Multi-Blind · top 0.47% of 4,268 all-time · competing since September 2011 · 2011KOWA01

Marcin Kowalczyk has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3 Multi-Blind: a personal-best single of 41 of 41 cubes · 54:14, set at SLS Swierklany 2013, puts him in the top 0.47% of the 4,268 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 5th in Poland. Across 50 competitions since September 2011, he has put 1,143 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, steadier than 90% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 16.53 in September 2011 to 9.39, a 43% improvement. Marcin has entered 50 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 Multi-Blind
best event — top 0.47% of 4,268 all-time
41 of 41 cubes · 54:14
signature single · SLS Swierklany 2013
1,143
official solves on the record
11%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 90% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×3 Multi-Blind41 of 41 cubes · 54:14—
top 0.47%5 / 203
3×3 blindfolded21.1725.45
top 1.7%16 / 466
3×39.3910.60
top 5.8%546 / 6,576
3×3 one-handed14.0518.58
top 6.2%153 / 2,176
4×4 blindfolded3:13.56—
top 9.2%10 / 93
5×5 blindfolded8:58.61—
top 17.3%10 / 39

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

Poznan Open 2011: 16.53Cube Factory 2011: 13.11Kociewie Open 2011: 15.77Cubing Spring Grudziadz 2012: 12.30Polish Open 2012: 13.46Silesia Open 2012: 12.97Polish Nationals 2012: 11.63Industrial Cube 2012: 12.50European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 12.41Rybnik Open 2013: 11.82Rumia Open 2013: 13.16Polish Open 2013: 11.80Kraków Open 2013: 13.15Manufaktura Open 2013: 11.53Polish Nationals 2013: 12.17GLS Summer 2013: 11.18Chojnice Open 2013: 12.81Grudziadz Open 2013: 10.19SLS Jastrzebie 2013: 9.58SLS Zaglebie 2013: 10.56GLS Autumn Reda 2013: 10.56SLS Swierklany 2013: 11.58Warsaw Open 2014: 10.18Polish Open 2014: 10.55SLS Rybnik 2014: 11.35Rumia Open 2014: 11.51SLS Chorzow 2014: 12.48Polish Nationals 2014: 11.76PLS Sopot 2014: 10.77Masterpress Summer 2014: 10.42Bydgoszcz Summer 2014: 9.39Art Rubik 2014: 10.61PLS Szczecin 2014: 10.86GLS Winter 2014: 11.19Cubers Eve 2014: 10.70Riviera Cube Week 2015: 10.30Grudziadz Open 2015: 10.42Polish Open 2015: 9.61Gdańsk Open 2015: 10.55Speed Days Kraśnik 2015: 10.68Berlin Summer Cube Day 2015: 10.22Kaliska Open 2015: 10.29Polish Championship 2015: 12.66Kaskada Open 2016: 10.72Grudziądz Open 2016: 10.61Polish Championship 2016: 11.03Polish Open 2017: 11.019.3916.5324 Sep 201115 Sep 2017

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-20 3×3 blindfolded single — 166 people have one; it is 1.17 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 1.39 away.

Targets move as he improves.