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Marcin Potoczny

3×3 · top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time · competing since December 2014 · 2014POTO02

Marcin Potoczny has been competing for 12 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.39, set at Polish Open 2018, puts him in the top 8.6% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 761st in Poland. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 4 competitions since December 2014, he has put 81 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 9% around a typical one, an early reading from 8 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.25 in December 2014 to 10.39, a 49% improvement. Marcin has entered four competitions, more competitions than 78% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.6% of 284,439 all-time
10.39
signature single · Polish Open 2018
81
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×310.3913.21
top 8.6%761 / 6,576
Pyraminx5.456.90
top 16.1%965 / 4,406
Skewb5.659.66
top 23.1%835 / 2,810
2×24.975.79
top 39.0%2,320 / 5,422
4×41:30.34
early days — 2 solves1,724 / 2,851
3×3 one-handed50.14
early days — 2 solves1,644 / 2,176

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

Santa Claus Cube Race 2014: 20.25ŚLS Gliwice 2015: 18.11Santa Claus Cube Race 2015: 13.23Polish Open 2018: 10.3910.3920.256 Dec 20148 Dec 2018

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-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.39 away.
  • A sub-5 Pyraminx single — 17,019 people have one; it is 0.45 away.

Targets move as he improves.