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Marcin Zalewski

3×3 · top 0.79% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2011 · 2011ZALE02

Marcin Zalewski has been competing for 15 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.42, set at Cube Factory 2013, puts him in the top 0.79% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 87th in Poland. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 43 competitions since April 2011, he has put 2,569 official solves on the record across 15 events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 56% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 10.81 in April 2011 to 6.42, a 41% improvement. Marcin has entered 43 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.79% of 284,439 all-time
6.42
signature single · Cube Factory 2013
2,569
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 56% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingPoland
3×36.429.03
top 0.79%87 / 6,576
2×21.113.30
top 0.79%111 / 5,422
3×3 one-handed10.9715.22
top 1.8%58 / 2,176
3×3 blindfolded23.8032.34
top 2.5%24 / 466
Pyraminx3.115.00
top 4.0%297 / 4,406
Megaminx56.441:05.28
top 8.1%144 / 1,384
4×437.5543.59
top 9.3%294 / 2,851
4×4 blindfolded3:19.196:24.42
top 9.9%11 / 93
3×3 Multi-Blind16 of 19 cubes · 58:50—
top 11.7%35 / 203
5×51:10.301:22.42
top 11.8%176 / 1,442
Skewb6.1212.05
top 26.6%958 / 2,810
3×3 Fewest Moves35 moves—
top 30.0%160 / 466
7×74:06.784:22.60
top 33.3%167 / 546
5×5 blindfolded13:20.00—
top 34.4%14 / 39
6×63:12.953:20.71
top 47.2%293 / 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

Bialystok Open 2011: 10.813Mola Open 2011: 12.59Czech Open 2011: 11.22Polish Nationals 2011: 11.25Poznan Open 2011: 9.78Cube Factory 2011: 10.06Kociewie Open 2011: 10.08Cubing Spring Grudziadz 2012: 9.13Polish Open 2012: 9.27Silesia Open 2012: 9.31Polish Nationals 2012: 9.84European Rubik's Cube Championship 2012: 9.65Warszawa Open 2012: 7.13Jura Open 2012: 9.97Polish Open 2013: 7.90Manufaktura Open 2013: 8.30Polish Nationals 2013: 8.19World Rubik's Cube Championship 2013: 9.17Chojnice Open 2013: 8.32Grudziadz Open 2013: 8.43SLS Jastrzebie 2013: 8.34Cube Factory 2013: 6.42SLS Zaglebie 2013: 7.64GLS Autumn Reda 2013: 8.52SLS Swierklany 2013: 7.10SLS Czestochowa 2013: 7.56Radom Open 2013: 8.72Cubers Eve 2013: 8.71Warsaw Open 2014: 9.27SLS Bielsko-Biala 2014: 7.92Polish Open 2014: 7.87SLS Gliwice 2014: 8.49SLS Rybnik 2014: 7.96Mielec Cube Day 2014: 7.89Rumia Open 2014: 7.35SLS Tarnowskie Gory 2014: 8.66SLS Chorzow 2014: 8.24Big Cube Krasnik 2014: 8.91Krakow Cubing Spree 2014: 8.45WLS Lato 2016: 8.28Cubers Eve Białystok 2018: 8.876.4212.5916 Apr 201115 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-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.42 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.11 away.

Targets move as he improves.